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Calculating vs Accounting - What's the difference?

calculating | accounting |

As verbs the difference between calculating and accounting

is that calculating is present participle of lang=en while accounting is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective calculating

is which has the ability to calculate.

As a noun 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.

calculating

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (especially of a robot) Which has the ability to calculate.
  • (especially of a person) Which serves one's own interests in an unemotional, analytical manner.
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    Verb

    (head)

    • accounting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia accounting) (-)
  • (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.
    • He was required to give a thorough accounting of his time.

    Derived terms

    * creative accounting