Crossword clues for accountant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accountant \Ac*count"ant\, n. [Cf. F. accomptant, OF. acontant, p. pr.]
One who renders account; one accountable.
A reckoner.
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One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.
Accountant \Ac*count"ant\, a.
Accountable. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "accounting officer, one who renders accounts," from Old French acuntant (Modern French accomptant), from present participle of accompter (see account (v.)). Sense of "professional maker of accounts" is recorded from 1530s. The word also was an adjective in Middle English, "accountable; liable to render accounts" (early 15c.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 One who renders account; one accountable. 2 A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s) 3 (context accounting English) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. 4 (context accounting English) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records. Etymology 2
a. (context obsolete English) accountable
WordNet
n. someone who maintains and audits business accounts [syn: comptroller, controller]
Wikipedia
An accountant is a practitioner of accounting or accountancy, which is the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about financial information that helps managers, investors, tax authorities and others make decisions about allocating resource(s).
In many jurisdictions, professional accounting bodies maintain standards of practice and evaluations for professionals. Accountants who have demonstrated competency through their professional associations' certification exams are certified to use titles such as Chartered Accountant, Chartered Certified Accountant or Certified Public Accountant. Such professionals are granted certain responsibilities by statute, such as the ability to certify an organization's financial statements, and may be held liable for professional misconduct. Non-qualified accountants may be employed by a qualified accountant, or may work independently without statutory privileges and obligations.
The Big Four auditors are the largest employers of accountants worldwide. However, most accountants are employed in commerce, industry and the public sector.
Usage examples of "accountant".
I had to give another share to an accountant, who furnished me with two clerks, who also took up their abode in the house.
Mary Harris, for example, found her work as a senior accountant absorbing, part of the reason she was one of the most dedicated accounting employees at her firm.
The response gave him a list of programs, and an accountant friend identified the one called MAS 90 as the target--the program that would hold their list of vendors and the discount and payment terms for each.
The rules, recited by a young Andersen accountant named Rick Causey, were fairly simple.
In his early days at Andersen, Duncan struck up a friendship with Causey, then just another accountant in the Houston office.
His was a purer view: the client puts together a deal, the accountant figures out the financial effect.
But its rising star was Ben Glisan, a highly skilled thirty-one-year-old accountant who had joined Enron just the year before.
Jeff McMahon-onetime Andersen accountant, longtime Enron executive-wandered through the finance division, leaning into various offices to greet old friends.
In 1717, when Addison became principal secretary of state in England, he procured for Budgell the place of accountant and comptroller-general of the revenue in Ireland.
He could have been an accountant, maybe, or a lawyer, or a schoolteacher.
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Robert Jaedicke, the committee chairman, said during a presentation from accountants with Arthur Andersen.
Eventually the accountants and lawyers left the room, and Fastow broke into laughter.
Steve Goddard, an Andersen partner, brought along a number of other accountants, including a young graduate from Texas AM named David Duncan, who was working on the Cactus deals.
Steve Goddard pulled out a pen as a group of Andersen accountants took their seats.