 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
accounting
noun
1: a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes; "he was
unable to give a clear accounting for his actions"
2: a system that provides quantitative information about
finances
3: the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and
preparing financial reports for a business [syn: {accountancy}]
4: a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and
credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts
[syn: {accounting system}, {method of accounting}]
5: a statement of recent transactions and the resulting
balance; "they send me an accounting every month" [syn: {account},
{account statement}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Account \Ac*count"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Accounted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Accounting}.] [OE. acounten, accompten, OF. aconter,
['a] (L. ad) + conter to count. F. conter to tell, compter to
count, L. computare. See {Count}, verb (used with an object)]
1. To reckon; to compute; to count. [Obs.]
The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are
accounted. --Sir T.
Browne.
2. To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to
assign; -- with to. [R.] --Clarendon.
3. To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or
consider; to deem.
Accounting that God was able to raise him up. --Heb.
xi. 19.
4. To recount; to relate. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "accounting":
account, account rendered, accountancy, acta, analysis, annual,
audit, auditing, automatic electronic navigation, bookkeeping,
braking, brief, bulletin, census, census report, computation,
coordination, cost accounting, cost system, cost-accounting system,
counting, dactylonomy, double-entry bookkeeping, election returns,
enumeration, fact distribution, foliation, forecasts, inspection,
inventorying, manipulation, measurement, minutes,
monetary arithmetic, nonlinear calibrations, numbering, numeration,
output measurement, pagination, proceedings, processing,
quantification, quantization, record keeping, report, returns,
single-entry bookkeeping, statement, steering,
supersonic flow detection, tally, tallying, telling, the record,
transactions, yearbook
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