bean counter
Noun
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Noun
bean counter (plural bean counters)
- (idiomatic, business, mildly, derogatory) A person, such as an accountant or financial officer, who is concerned with quantification, especially to the exclusion of other matters.
- 1985 Aug. 2, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xugTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XQYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5904,446839&dq=bean-counter Editorial: Sniffing at DOC health costs]," Gainsville Sun, p. 14A (retrieved 13 Sep 2009):
- As any good bean counter will tell you, it costs money to treat people at a hospital.
- 2008 Dec. 23, Robert Chew, "[http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1868356-2,00.html Who Is Bernie Madoff? Many Investors Didn't Ask]," Time (retrieved 13 Sep 2009):
- And, in our case, the accounting firm of Halpern & Mantovani, CPA, in Encino, Calif., Chais' chief bean counter, pumped out the quarterly statements as if it were all rock solid.
- 1985 Aug. 2, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xugTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XQYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5904,446839&dq=bean-counter Editorial: Sniffing at DOC health costs]," Gainsville Sun, p. 14A (retrieved 13 Sep 2009):
- Russian: счетово́д
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