cook the accounts
To falsify financial records for a company or organization. My partner had been cooking the accounts for years, but because I was the CEO, I got the blame for our company's collapse.
cook the accounts
and cook the booksto cheat in bookkeeping; to make the accounts appear to balance when they do not. Jane was charged with cooking the accounts of her mother's store. It's hard to tell whether she really cooked the accounts or just didn't know what she was doing.