Number Cruncher

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Number Cruncher

A slang term for an accountant or other financial worker.

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Read The Number Cruncher every Monday in the Racing Post

Horse Racing: Starts system points to three names in big chase; NUMBER CRUNCHER UPDATE

Industry number cruncher Kantar said Lidl's sales jump 16% to reach a new market share of 4.2% in the past three months.

Budget stores sales soar; CITY DESK

Statto Paul Johnson, chief number cruncher at the authoritative Institute for Fiscal Studies, declared household incomes at the election will "still be below" when you entered No10.

THESE CUTS ALL ADD UP

Another panel member Mike Watkins, of number crunchers Nielsen, said: "From an economic perspective, consumers should be feeling more confident and flush in light of wage growth and low unemployment, but they are notably clawing back spend at the retail industry's peril."

TOUGH TIME IN RETAIL; For live business news visit city desk

Firms were hit by a halt in Brexit stockpiling, a report from number crunchers Markit and the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply showed.

Britain's manufacturing sector went []; FINANCE

It's a small world also plays other songs with his trusty number crunchers, like the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' theme.

WATCH: 'Super Mario Bros.' theme played by YouTuber on calculators

The Tories are notoriously broad based number crunchers and are renowned for saying they'll do one thing and then doing completely another thing.

Tories say one thing and do another; Letters

The number crunchers from Broomfield & Alexander are busy raising PS10,000 as their contribution to the charity's PS1m national target, and with less than half the allotted time gone, are already over half way towards their goal.

Accountants figure how to help charity

LIVERPOOL .......................5 NORWICH ..........................1 LIVERPOOL striker Luis Suarez scored four goals - including a superb 20-minute first-half hattrick - to send the number crunchers into overdrive and Norwich back to East Anglia disconsolate.

Sublime Suarez is four-star general in Anfield masterclass

LIVERPOOL striker Luis Suarez scored four goals - including a superb 20-minute first-half hat-trick - to send the number crunchers into overdrive and Norwich back to East Anglia disconsolate.

LIVERPOOL'S SUPERSUAR

NEMA number crunchers are not only fearless forecasters; they're accurate ones, too.

The magic 8-ball says, 'ask NEMA'

The Number Crunchers section enables property investors and their professional advisers to assess the viability of new property investment deals as well as existing property portfolios.