A person employed in bookkeeping or accounting; a firm which provides such services
And, in our case, the accounting firm of Halpern & Mantovani, CPA, in Encino, Calif., Chais' chief bean counter, pumped out the quarterly statements as if it were all rock solid.
disapproval You can describe people such as accountants and business managers as bean counters if you disapprove of them because you think they are only interested in money. bean counters who tend to focus on controlling expenses. someone whose job is to examine the cost of doing something, and who is concerned only with making a profit - used to show disapproval