accounting

accounting
    n 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}, {accounting}]
    4: a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and
       credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts
       [syn: {accounting}, {accounting system}, {method of
       accounting}]
    5: a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance;
       "they send me an accounting every month" [syn: {account},
       {accounting}, {account statement}]
    

Account \Ac*count"\, v. t. [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}, v. t.]
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   1. To reckon; to compute; to count. [Obs.]
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            The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are
            accounted.                            --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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   2. To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to
      assign; -- with to. [R.] --Clarendon.
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   3. To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or
      consider; to deem.
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            Accounting that God was able to raise him up. --Heb.
                                                  xi. 19.
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   4. To recount; to relate. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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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