(accounting) The year-end numbers needed to file a balance sheet for a corporation. / (law) The statement submitted at the close of the matter.

plural of accounting period

A regular period of time, as a month, quarter, or year, for which an operative statement is drawn up.

plural of final account

An accounting practice in which a company takes a quantity of large reserves from an economically successful year and incurs them against losses from less successful years, potentially misleading investors into believing that their losses are less than the actual value.

On one's own behalf. / By oneself. / At one's own risk.

(transitive) Use well; take advantage of.

(dated) To find satisfactory profit or advantage (in something).

(humorous) That explains everything (in response to a satisfactory explanation).

(now chiefly UK regional) To reckon with (also on or for) some future act or event; to expect, to plan (for).