Beancounting

Quick meaning: Beancounting is a noun meaning The act or policy of relying on quantitative measurable details, especially those concerned with expenses and profits, as opposed to seeking a broader understanding of something.

Meaning

The act or policy of relying on quantitative measurable details, especially those concerned with expenses and profits, as opposed to seeking a broader understanding of something.

Example Sentences

Birt was 'obsessed with systems and procedures and power diagrams and channels of accountability' and 'turned the BBC into a beancounting Babel'.

Ad statistics, the boring beancounting task critical to keep the budgets flowing, would have to exist separately and work for advertisers and their accounting departments.

A proud bureaucrat, Hermes serves as Planet Express's accountant, although, as we will discuss, his role goes well beyond the traditional beancounting activities we associate with accounting.

At a practical level, a project of organizing prisoners would challenge the predominant beancounting organizing approach that considers a campaign viable only if potential dues income exceeds organizing and servicing costs.

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