Clerk vs Accountant - What's the difference?
clerk | accountant |
One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks , however, understood him very well.
A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
(lb) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk ).
*1595 , (William Shakespeare), ,
*:God save the King! Will no man say, amen? / Am I both priest and clerk ? Well then, amen.
To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk
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 clerk and accountant
is that clerk is one who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker while accountant is one who renders account; one accountable.As a verb clerk
is to act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk.As an adjective accountant is
accountable.clerk
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
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* *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.}}