accounting
The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business.
Other meanings
A relaying of events; justification of actions.
“He was required to give a thorough accounting of his time.”
An equitable remedy requiring wrongfully obtained profits to be distributed to those who deserve them.
Related words
- funny accounting
- nonaccounting
- preaccounting
- creative accounting
- financial accounting
- green accounting
- Hollywood accounting
- accounting cost
- accounting equation
- accounting machine
- accounting period
- accounting profit
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This definition is adapted from “accounting” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.