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Accountant vs Archivist - What's the difference?

accountant | archivist |

As nouns the difference between accountant and archivist

is that accountant is one who renders account; one accountable while archivist is one who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing, and organising, archives.

As an adjective accountant

is (obsolete) accountable.

accountant

English

Alternative forms

(one who handles financial records)

Etymology 1

* First attested in the mid 15th century. * * From (etyl), from (etyl) acuntant. * Compare (etyl) accomptant. * See also account .

Noun

(wikipedia accountant) (en noun)
  • One who renders account; one accountable.
  • A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s)
  • (accounting) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
  • (accounting) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
    • Quotations
    * {{quote-book, year=1900 , author=Francis William Pixley , title=Accountancy — constructive and recording accountancy (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London). citation , volume=1 , page=4 , passage=The word Accountant is derived from the French word compter'', which took its origin from the Latin word ''computare . The word was formerly written in English as "accomptant", but in process of time the word, which was always pronounced by dropping the "p", became gradually changed both in pronunciation and in orthography to its present form.}}
    Derived terms
    * accountant general * chartered accountant * Certified National Accountant

    Etymology 2

    * First attested in the early 15th century.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) accountable
    • Usage notes
    (adjective) Followed by the word to .

    archivist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing, and organising, archives.
    • The billionaire's will established a trust to create a staff of archivists that would chronicle and preserve his rise to prominence.

    Synonyms

    * historian, librarian, preservationist, recordkeeper, scribe