cook the books
informalto change numbers dishonestly in the accounts (= financial records) of an organization, especially in order to steal money from it
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Accounting
- accountancy
- accountant
- accounting
- accounts
- arrears
- auditor
- balance
- bill
- capital
- capital gains
- costing
- expenditure
- false accounting
- fraudulent accounting
- FRS
- GAAP
- housekeeping
- imprest
- loss
- square
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