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Accounting

noun

A convincing explanation that reveals basic causes.

A system that provides quantitative information about finances.

The occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business. Synonym: accountancy.

A bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts. Synonyms: accounting system, method of accounting.

A statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance. Synonyms: account, account statement.

Account

verb

(past & past part. accounted; pres. part. accounting)

Be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something.

Keep an account of. Synonym: calculate.

To give an account or representation of in words. Synonyms: describe, report.

Furnish a justifying analysis or explanation. Synonym: answer for.

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"Accounting" Quotes from Famous Books

... anxious to find some means of annoying her. Netta had been jealous of her new-found appreciation in the Form, and had taken this opportunity of trying to humble her. The deficit in the gate fund filled Gwen with surprise. There seemed only one way of accounting for it, and that was so painful that she shrank from facing it. Lesbia had taken change out of the satchel, and that same evening Lesbia had acknowledged the possession of ten shillings, but had refused to reveal how she came by ...

— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil

... from his place, and that the police were looking out for him on the suspicion of having stolen Mr. Calcott's parcel, moralizing further on the depravity of such doings when my young Lord was so ill, but accounting for the whole by pronouncing poaching to be bred in the bone of the ...

— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge

... are the soul and spirit. We find in it a correlative illustration of that notion not uncommon among primitive poets, and revived by the Cabalists, that whoever knew the Word of a thing was master of the thing itself, and an easy way of accounting for the innate fitness and necessity, the fore ordination, which stamps the phrases of real poets. If, on the other hand, we accept Mr. Wedgwood's system, we must consider speech, as the theologians of the Middle Ages assumed of matter, to be only potentiated ...

— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 34, August, 1860 • Various

... was a plump little beau of forty, at war with his fat and accounting his tight blue tail coat and brass buttons a victory. His tightness made his fatness elastic; he looked wound up for a dance, and could hardly hold on a leg; but the presentation of a creature in a battered ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... furthered his cause and magnified his victory, using many illustrations. Others declared he had contended with the help of the consular army and had no individual and independent appointment, and furthermore they even demanded an accounting from him because he had not carried out his instructions. However, he won his point. And he in that place [lacuna] before Aurelius [lacuna] Vermis [lacuna] from the [lacuna] (Paris Fragment, p. ...

— Dio's Rome, Vol VI. • Cassius Dio

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