cast up one's accounts

He was very careful to cast up his accounts every quarter ; which he did, that he might spend neither more nor less than what he could spend every year.

To cast up one's accounts upon excessive drinking ; either, says Cotgrave, because in spewing one makes a noise like a fox that barks, or (from the subject to the effect) because the flaying of so unsavoury a beast will make any one spew.