0 an accountant (= someone who takes care of a company's financial affairs), especially one who works for a large company and does not like to allow employees to spend money:
1 a person who makes financial decisions for a company or government, especially someone who wants to severely limit the amount of money spent:
It is not a matter for the abacus of the bean counter or the computer of the realtime logistician.
We did not have any "bean counters" on the board; they were confined to keeping the figures.
They are not bean counters who will crawl all over it and subject it to all sorts of difficulties and time-wasting processes.
Bureaucratic procedures precisely followed are costing animals' lives and families' livelihoods, and, what matters to "bean counters", the loss and expenditure of public money.
The bean counters are within the walls and the talk is always of the pressure.
We do nt answer to corporate boards, bean counters, banks, or other masterswe make our own decisions.
That said you can't help feel the franchise bean counters at work here thanks to all the ominous foreshadowing and unresolved character arcs.
The bean counters don't like that.
