Accounting

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The bookkeeping methods involved in making a financial record of business transactions and in the preparation of statements concerning the assets, liabilities, and operating results of a business.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of account.
  • n. The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of a business or other organization.
  • n. A relaying of events; justification of actions.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Reckoning; computation; counting.
  • n. An examination, reckoning, rendering, or balancing of accounts so as to arrive at the true state of any transaction or course of transactions: as, the court ordered an accounting; the parties came to an accounting.
  • n. The art or science of keeping accounts; the principles or methods of account-keeping; accountancy: as, manufacturing accounting; mercantile accounting.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a system that provides quantitative information about finances
  • n. a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts
  • n. a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes
  • n. a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
  • n. the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    importance    reason    ground    declare    be   
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    balance    charge    compound    overbalance    bill   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rehearsal    recital    narration    description    narrative   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Mt    amount    count    discount    miscount   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    record    description    example    evidence    list