hand-to-pocket accounting
French translation: travailler de la main à la main
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|  Selected response from: Christian Fournier France Local time: 16:45 | ||||||
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peer agreement (net): -1des comptes parallèles Explanation: Je pense à : Ils tiennent des comptes parallèles. Ils tiennent une comptabilité non officielle (de la main à la main). Ils tiennent une comptabilité au noir. Ils confondent chiffre d'affaires et revenu. |
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comptabilité de "coin de table" Explanation: suggestion |
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des transactions sans aucune comptabilité Explanation: une suggestion |
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2 days 4 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1comptabilité au pifomètre / pifométrique Explanation: "Most enterprises owners do not keep written records. They do “hand-to-pocket accounting”. They may not know how to determine whether their enterprise is profitable". The key point is that they haven't got a clue about exact figures - they have only a vague idea about how much money is coming in and where it's being spent. "hand-to-pocket accounting" in actual fact means no accounting to speak of - no "informal" accounting, no "cooking the books" accounting, not any kind of accounting - simply une comptabilité qui brille par son absence Sounds very much to me like a good description for "la méthode pifométrique"! |
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comptabilité de la main à la main Explanation: ../.. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 jours 1 heure (2022-11-20 18:29:57 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Je modifierais bien ma suggestion en "ils travaillent de la main à la main". En effet, la question indique bien qu'il n'est tenu aucune comptabilité et que, donc, "accounting" soit figure à tort dans l'expression anglaise, soit fait partie d'une expression répertoriée (que je ne connais pas), mais ne devrait pas être traduite. |
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