Meaning:
Accountants, finance professionals in an organization
Examples:
- Your brother and I got together with the bean counters.
- I can't believe I'm living with a bunch of bean counters.
- You can't expect the bean counters to understand that sort of thing.
- Jethro, the bean counters couldn't find you, so they gave this to me.
- Eve, why don't you come with me and I'll introduce you to the bean counters?
- Either the bean counters at Lockheed don't know, or they don't want me to know.