How to Use accountancy in a Sentence

accountancy

noun
  • The school boasts high pass rates for the state public accountancy exams.
    — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 15 May 2018
  • Clearly, accountancy was not the path Couji was destined to take.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2020
  • To get an accurate fee schedule, contact your state’s accountancy board.
    — Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Barrenechea’s signing may prove to be a slow-burning success, whether in Emery’s squad or their accountancy books.
    — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Spreadsheets have yet to send the accountants to the dole queue, because there is more to accountancy than making columns of figures add up.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • Document experience and skills gained to submit to the state board of accountancy.
    — Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Is public accountancy, as some of the characters in the novel insist, a moral vocation?
    — Jon Baskin, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022
  • That means professions such as architecture, accountancy and consulting will be harder to sell in to the bloc.
    — Edward Evans, Bloomberg.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Earlier this month, British accountancy software company, Sage got in on the act.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Nonetheless, a Melbourne boutique accountancy firm has chosen the area for a team-building retreat.
    — Marion Winik, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The deal with accountancy firm Oury Clark saved dozens of jobs and served as a jump-off point for Playhouse to supercharge its production wing.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Workers, too, worry that their job will be the next to be automated, a threat that has shifted from the factory floor to middle-class jobs in accountancy, law and finance.
    — The Economist, 26 May 2018
  • In popular discourse, the economy was portrayed as a bundle of accountancy measures.
    — Jason Blakely, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Kramer and her husband gave the naming gift for JCU’s accountancy and information sciences school.
    — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 3 June 2019
  • Carbon accountancy is a priority, but there should be an emphasis on reducing the cause of emissions—not just offsetting through third parties.
    — Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Before launching the firm, Jefferson spent the past eight years as an account manager at an accountancy corporation.
    — Katie Krzaczek, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2018
  • In September, the British music trade journal Music Week named the company accountancy firm of the year.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2021
  • While Bock’s roots were in accountancy and finance, Brudermueller is centered more on research and operations.
    — Andrew Marc Noel, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2018
  • Transfer fee add-ons, or ‘contingent consideration’, to use accountancy lingo, can be accounted for in different ways, with three main practices used in the industry.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Two female partners at KPMG, an accountancy group, recently left out of concern at the behaviour of a male colleague.
    — The Economist, 6 June 2019
  • Many mid-level jobs have already been rendered obsolete in sectors such as architecture, law, accountancy, teaching, and medicine (and many more salaries, therefore, have been absorbed as corporate wealth).
    — Rana Dasgupta, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • In Canada, Christina worked for an accountancy company while Wahid rose up the ranks at an agricultural consulting company.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 5 May 2023
  • Brand new for this year, a dedicated gallery space offered a range of Producer Surgeries, covering finance, accountancy, tax and business strategy.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Mandi Alt, senior instructor of accountancy at the University of Illinois, said the lease arrangement was not unusual.
    — Stacey Barchenger, AZCentral.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Another is PageGroup, valued at £769 million, which works across professions including accountancy and law.
    — Ian King, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Once Chern Yuan came on board in 2005, after studying accountancy and finance at the University of Melbourne, the company moved up the value chain.
    — Jonathan Burgos, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • In order to address the accountancy skills gap within the creative sector and to ensure that the course is accessible to as many people as possible, Disney will underwrite 75% of all student course fees and will fully fund three students.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Mar. 2022
  • To avoid these dangers, the chief operating officer of BDO, an accountancy firm, has suggested that two chaperones attend seasonal celebrations, along with first-aiders.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Many accountancy firms are already adopting AI, positioning CPAs to guide businesses in using these tools safely and effectively.
    — Tom Invernizzi, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The Financial Times reported that leading accountancy firms, including the Big Four, are launching AI auditing programs.
    — Mark Thirlwell, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025

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