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Accounting vs Settlement - What's the difference?

accounting | settlement |

As nouns the difference between accounting and settlement

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 settlement is the state of being settled.

As a verb accounting

is present participle of lang=en.

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

    settlement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of being settled.
  • A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
  • A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city.
  • (architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
  • (finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
  • (legal) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
  • (legal) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
  • (legal) A resolution of a dispute.
  • Synonyms

    * (A resolution of a dispute) arrangement

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * settlement agreement