1.   Nowadays record companies use impeccable accounting techniques, assisted by computers, to calculate the royalties for composers.

2.   An understanding of accounting techniques is a major requisite for the work of the analysts.

3.   -- Accounting techniques.

4.   Accounting techniques used by large corporations to avoid U.S. income taxes cost Americans billions of dollars each year.

5.   Not only has he extended existing tax cuts, but he has tried to hide the cost of doing so with accounting techniques that would make Enron proud.

6.   Signs that Germany has to use accounting techniques to qualify for the monetary union stirred concern that other European Union members might resort to similar moves.

7.   Some investors and analysts have worried that WorldCom has used aggressive accounting techniques in the past, particularly in reporting revenue.

8.   The bill also employs some creative accounting techniques to help pay for so-called emergencies and avoid borrowing from the Social Security Trust Fund to meet demands for spending increases.

9.   The appropriations bills contain accounting techniques to help pay for increased spending that Republicans wanted.

10.   The profits poured in but were quickly siphoned off by razzle-dazzle accounting techniques.