Accounting vs Acount - What's the difference?
accounting | acount |
(accounting) The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of a business or other organization.
A relaying of events; justification of actions.
* {{quote-book, year=1856, author=William Makepeace Thackeray, title=Burlesques, chapter=, edition=
, passage=His banker's acount , I fear, is in a horrid state." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1883, author=George Washington Williams, title=History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2), chapter=, edition=
, passage=No objection could be made to her admission, except on acount of her complexion, and Miss Crandall decided to receive her as a pupil. }}
As nouns the difference between accounting and acount
is that accounting is the development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of a business or other organization while acount is misspelling of lang=en.As a verb accounting
is present participle of lang=en.accounting
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(wikipedia accounting) (-)- He was required to give a thorough accounting of his time.
Derived terms
* creative accountingacount
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