account for, accounting for, accounted for, having accounted for I'm struggling to understand account for, accounting for, accounted for, having accounted for in sentences. Can you go over my understanding of the prhases? I guess "failing to account for it gives a poorer" means 'failing to understand it gives a poorer', and "more children are defined as poor after accounting for housing costs than before these are accounted for" means 'more children are defined as poor after reporting housing costs than before these are reported', and the last "income is available after having accounted for housing costs" means 'income is available after having recording housing costs". Did I guess correctly? : "Housing is a large and fixed element of family spending and so failing to account for it gives a poorer understanding of the disposable income actually available to the household. Further there is also the perverse effect that, under this regime, housing benefit payments will be included as income. Someone with high rent and housing benefit payments to cover some or all of it would therefore show up as having quite a high income, even though they may experience a low disposable one. Since more children are defined as poor after accounting for housing costs than before these are accounted for, then the switch reduces the number of children defined as poor." "The reason for continuing to take account of the AHC measure is that housing is both usually the largest item of spending and is one which does not tend to vary from week to week. In consequence a more accurate understanding of the income is available after having accounted for housing costs (often called disposable income)."