Accounting
1accounting — ac‧coun‧ting [əˈkaʊntɪŋ] noun [uncountable] 1. ACCOUNTING JOBS the usual word for the profession of accountancy in the US 2. ACCOUNTING the work of keeping a company s financial records, recording its income and expenses, and its business deals:… …
2accounting — ac·count·ing n 1: an often court ordered presentment or examination of accounts a complete accounting would be necessary to determine the nature of the expenditures Case & Comment 2: the settlement by judicial action of the assets of a… …
3accounting — (n.) reckoning of numbers, late 14c., from prp. of ACCOUNT (Cf. account) (v.). Phrase no accounting for tastes (1823) translates Latin de gustibus non est disputandum …
4accounting — accounting; re·accounting; …
5accounting — [n] keeping financial accounts auditing, balancing the books*, bookkeeping, calculating, computing, reckoning; concepts 28,764 …
6accounting — ► NOUN ▪ the keeping of financial accounts …
7accounting — [ə kount′iŋ] n. 1. the principles or practice of systematically recording, presenting, and interpreting financial accounts 2. a statement of debits and credits 3. a settling or balancing of accounts …
8accounting — /euh kown ting/, n. 1. the theory and system of setting up, maintaining, and auditing the books of a firm; art of analyzing the financial position and operating results of a business house from a study of its sales, purchases, overhead, etc.… …
9accounting — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Keeping of financial records Nouns 1. (act of accounting) accounting, accountance, accountancy, bookkeeping, audit, calculation (See numeration), commercial or business arithmetic; cost or managerial… …
10accounting — An act or a system of making up or settling accounts, consisting of a statement of account with debits and credits arising from relationship of parties. State ex rel. King v. Harvey, Miss., 214 So.2d 817, 819. Rendition of an account, either… …
