Controller vs Accountant - What's the difference?
controller | accountant |
One who controls something.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
(business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
(computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
(nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
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 controller and accountant
is that controller is one who controls something while accountant is one who renders account; one accountable.As an adjective accountant is
(obsolete) accountable.controller
English
Noun
(en noun)- The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
Synonyms
* administrator * foreman * chief, head, head man * comptroller * overseer * organizer * superintendent * supervisorDerived terms
* memory controller * microcontrolleraccountant
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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)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.}}