accounting — the process or work of keeping financial accounts of a business
Part of speech: NOUN
Definition: the process or work of keeping financial accounts of a business
Pronunciation (IPA): /əˈkaʊntɪŋ/
Example Sentences
- The accounting department discovered that someone had been buying coffee with the company credit card every day.
- Good accounting practices help businesses make informed decisions.
- He switched from engineering to accounting because he loved working with numbers more than machines.
accounting
NOUN[/əˈkaʊntɪŋ/]
the process or work of keeping financial accounts of a business
Managing business financial records
Accounting means counting, while paperwork keeps mounting!
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🌳Etymology
Origin
The word derives from 14th-century French 'acounter,' meaning 'to calculate' or 'to explain.' As commerce expanded during the medieval period, the practice of counting and recording money became increasingly vital, leading the term to evolve toward its modern sense of financial record-keeping and auditing.
Breakdown
ac- (to) + count (to enumerate or calculate) + -ing (verbal noun denoting the action or practice). The prefix 'ac-' is an assimilated form of Latin 'ad-' (to/toward), combined with the root 'count' from Old French 'conter.'
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📝Examples
“The accounting department discovered that someone had been buying coffee with the company credit card every day.”
“Good accounting practices help businesses make informed decisions.”
“He switched from engineering to accounting because he loved working with numbers more than machines.”
“The accounting error was so big that even the calculator seemed embarrassed.”
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