bean-counter

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bean-counter

n. a statistician; an accountant. When the bean-counters get finished with the numbers, you won’t recognize them.

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The bean-counters have just revealed average household disposable income dropped another pounds 200 last year.

Although supply chain officers are starting to crop up in the boardroom, they've usually been the behind-the-scenes types - you know, the bean-counters making sure everything gets everywhere so everyone can have everything they want.

How Companies Continue to Get the Job Done Despite Risks of Natural Disasters, in Supply Chain Digital

To hell with the Whitehall bean-counters, build more prisons and put law-abiding citizens before criminals.

Longer sentences; emails & letters

YET again the bean-counters have been at work and it's been revealed that Britain's dog and cat lovers will spend pounds 100million on pressies for their pets.

Kayla tackles another parasite

While Alan Orme (Letters, May) may be understandably worried about the financial implications of climate change, I suspect that he, like most of us bean-counters, doesn't know enough about the subject to offer an informed opinion.

Green bean-counting

Fox's bean-counters report that Tuesday's MLB All-Star Game shows the L.

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL

I was very upset last September when the Programme for Adult Education was delivered and I realised what a wholesale destruction of the service had been carried out to the god of bean-counters and small-minded people of little vision.

Letter: You say - Adult education wrecked

Although there is a small amount of adult content - 40 Hour Man is definitely for mature readers only - the primary focus is on frustrations of the working world, petty co-workers, vengeful bosses, bean-counters in suits, and other employment-related hazards.

40 Hour Man

Somebody obviously tried to raise the game with a sprinkling of drilled aluminium, but the GM bean-counters completely ruined the effect by stuffing in Astra indicator stalks and a tacky plastic interior light in the middle of the dash.

Quentin Willson's Motoring Column: SHAME ABOUT THE INFERIOR INTERIOR

Irene O'Neill, of the Independent Federation of Nurses, said: "The new breed of hospital bean-counters know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

Don't deck our wards with boughs of holly

The bean-counters at The People are a bit like my old Scottish mate Ian St John - tighter than a mallard's posterior.

HI folks, Jimmy Greaves here [...]

The Phoenix Four's reputations may have been tarnished by the demise of MG Rover, but their ill-fated reign at Longbridge is now overshadowed by the grasping bean-counters of HBOS.

Is this why the banks were saved?

As usual the NHS management, unlike the NHS staff at the sharp end, does not work for the benefit of the patients but for the bean-counters in suits.

Letter: Your Say - Muddled thinking will cause big problems

The smart alec whizzkids and management bean-counters who have tarnished that reputation are not the people to restore it.

Record View: Beeb bloomer

Dowie, who has instilled fantastic team spirit to the Latics' squad, will surely be snapped up smartly if the worst happens and the bean-counters pull the plug today.