He'd have to kill enough of the people serving under this bean counter to force a surrender.

To the bean counters, the bottom line is always more important than the farm system.

The bean counters have taken over, and guys like us, we're history!

Only if that further study is intended to turn out another academic bean counter.

This time, some of the bean counters are not going quietly.

I had better get down to the old bean counters.

His wife had a creative mind, but he was a bean counter.

"We've got a couple of bean counters from supply that haven't been out in a fighting ship before, but they should be all right."

I was finding him to be a bean counter at best.

"Never mind the cost of what it does to our social environment, we need more money", say the bean counters!

Prior to this role, he was the company's controller and chief accounting officer.

It is therefore vital that the accounting officer has a strong and independent position.

But he added: "It was not known to our chief accounting officer.

It shall call for or question directly the accounting officers who are in charge of these accounts.

He then moved from one job to another and eventually worked as an assistant to an accounting officer on the ship Horus.

The Commission has received warnings to this effect for a long time, most recently from its own accounting officer, who was promptly removed.

Usually, the chief accounting officer simply implements things, puts the numbers in place.

From 1906 to 1914 he worked as an accounting officer of the People's care in Westphalia.

We forgot to include the accounting officer, and it would be better to put him back in, because he too is entitled to see this information.

Turning, secondly, to the question of the accounting officer's role, I am also grateful for the clarifications that have been given today.