Finally, the costs of new weapons are sometimes concealed by secrecy and creative bookkeeping.

A liquidation of assets or a bit of creative bookkeeping takes care of it.

That leaves about six grand, an amount that will call for some seriously creative bookkeeping.

The union says that because salaries are relatively low, the league is making money, and that any losses are a result of creative bookkeeping.

But federal officials say states have used creative bookkeeping and other ploys to obtain large amounts of federal Medicaid money without paying their share.

Very often such shipments simply disappeared, mainly from sloppy - or creative - bookkeeping.

Bush administration officials say states have used creative bookkeeping and accounting gimmicks to obtain large amounts of federal Medicaid money without paying their share.

Some of them obviously went in for creative bookkeeping ... not that I found anything illegal.

I figure Jane Citizen is in the hole for about eighty million dollars because of his creative bookkeeping.

As it is, mass transit has received, through creative bookkeeping, but a pittance from the "trade in."