accounting

[acĀ·countĀ·ing]

Accounting is the act of computing something, usually by dealing with numbers. If you were very good at math in high school, you might think about going into accounting.

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Noun
the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business

Noun
a system that provides quantitative information about finances

Noun
a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes; "he was unable to give a clear accounting for his actions"

Noun
a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance; "they send me an accounting every month"

Noun
a bookkeeper''s chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts

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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Account


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Usage Examples

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

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Other Usage Examples

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

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