The main problem with bean counting is not in the counting: it is the beans.

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"Accountability" has turned to test cramming and bean counting, often limited to basic reading and math skills.

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Still a viable property, for now, sadly, Wall Street has reduced present analytical content to that of bean counting, an aspersion on Street sagacity and player perspective.

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It should stick to bean counting.

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Mr Fox's predecessors have been everything from fervent nationalists to bean-counting economists, but none has been what he is, a businessman to the core.

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Even in conventional bean-counting terms, radical management turns out to be two- to four-times more productive than traditional management with its focus on scalable efficiency and treating customers and employees as things to be manipulated.

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Mr Gapes said the quality of care was becoming secondary to "deficit-reducing bean-counting", telling MPs he was "extremely angry at the betrayal of my constituents" and pointing out that the current government had spoken out against the closure of hospital services whilst in opposition.

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