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Is the work of an accountant responsible for paying a company's bills that operates with current accounts, interest-bearing deposits, and loans, in addition to his responsibility for the treasury and recording accounting entries, considered haram or religiously doubtful, taking into account that he does not participate in obtaining loans or making interest-bearing deposits, but merely records them, and his role in invoice schedules is limited to recording them without involvement in feeding accounts from interest sources or loans?

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We understand that you are an accountant in a company and your work is limited to calculating water and electricity bills, with no involvement in usurious loans. This work is permissible, and there is no blame upon you for presenting these bills to the manager for review and for him to add funds to them, regardless of the source of these funds. It is better, however, for you to look for another job if possible.

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