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accounting noun

  /ə.ˈkaʊn.tɪŋ/
  • (business) The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business.
 boekhouding

account noun

  /ə.ˈkaʊnt/
  • (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]
 rekening, rekenschap, verhaal, verslag
  • A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
  • Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
 account, rekening
  • (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
 berekening, rekening, telling

accountant noun

  /ə.ˈkaʊn.tənt/ , [ə.ˈkæʊn.ʔn̩ʔ]
  • A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
 boekhouder, accountant
  • (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.
 boekhouder

accountable adjective

  /əˈkaʊntəbl̩/
  • Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable.
 aansprakelijk, verantwoordelijk
  • (rare) Capable of being accounted for; explicable; explainable.
 verklaarbaar

accountability noun

  /əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/ , /əˌkæɔn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/ , [əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ɾi] , [əˌkæɔn.təˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
  • The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
 verantwoording

accountancy noun

  /ə.ˈkaʊnt.ən.si/
  • (uncountable, British, NZ, often, _, Philippines, accounting) The function of compiling and providing financial information primarily by reports referred to as financial statements, including bookkeeping, systems design, analysis and interpretation of accounting information.
 boekhouden

accounts

administratie
there's no accounting for taste
over smaak valt niet te twisten
accounting system
administratiesysteem
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