Accountant vs Nonaccountant - What's the difference?
accountant | nonaccountant |
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.
As nouns the difference between accountant and nonaccountant
is that accountant is one who renders account; one accountable while nonaccountant is one who is not an accountant.As an adjective accountant
is (obsolete) accountable.accountant
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(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)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.}}