Crossword clues for comptroller
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, variant of controller, with bad spelling due to influence of unrelated French compte "an account," from Latin computare.
Wiktionary
n. The chief accountant of a company or government.
WordNet
n. someone who maintains and audits business accounts [syn: accountant, controller]
Wikipedia
A comptroller is a management level position responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization. A financial comptroller is a senior-level executive who acts as the head of accounting, and oversees the preparation of financial reports, such as balance sheets and income statements.
The comptroller general, auditor general, or comptroller and auditor general is in most commonwealth countries the external auditor of the budget execution of the government and of government-owned companies. Typically, the independent institution headed by the comptroller general is a member of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI). In American government, the comptroller is effectively the chief financial officer of a public body.
In business management, the comptroller is closer to a chief audit executive, holding a senior role in internal audit functions. Generally, the title encompasses a variety of responsibilities, from overseeing accounting and monitoring internal controls to countersigning on expenses and commitments.
Usage examples of "comptroller".
But we were more interested in the recesses of Comptroller Bay, where our eyes eagerly sought out the three bights of land and centred on the midmost one, where the gathering twilight showed the dim walls of a valley extending inland.
Cape Martin, the southeasternmost point of Nuku-hiva, was abeam, and Comptroller Bay was opening up as we fled past its wide entrance, where Sail Rock, for all the world like the spritsail of a Columbia River salmon-boat, was making brave weather of it in the smashing southeast swell.
When the Cuttses visited Montpelier that first summer of retirement, Anna was expecting her seventh child and Richard had just been appointed second comptroller of the treasury.
The auditor shall, except as hereinafter provided, have like authority as that conferred by law upon the several auditors of the United States and the Comptroller of the United States Treasury and is authorized to communicate directly with any person having claims before him for settlement, or with any department, officer, or person having official relations with his office.
He told me that my decisive way of speaking had made a great impression, and he was certain that if I cared to make interest with the comptroller we could set up the lottery and make a large profit.
The group remained silent as the young man deftly served the comptroller and credit manager while, around them, the hum of the dining room, a subdued clatter of plates and the passage of waiters through the kitchen door, continued.
The cheerfulness, however, did not appease the comptroller, already piqued at being summoned from his home where he had been working on his stamp collection, and further irritated by not being taken into confidence concerning whatever was afoot.
The comptroller, his expression still sad, again produced his pencil and held it poised.
The comptroller sighed, put down his pencil and waveringly raised his hand.
Celia stopped, realizing that argument was useless, that the conversation was going nowhere, and wondering again why she was talking with the comptroller and not Sam Hawthorne.
Already Martin had gone through a brief rehearsal, guided by the Comptroller of the Household, a colonel in dress uniform.
I went to the comptroller, and trusting in his probity I explained my scheme to him.
Upon this Nelson wrote to Sir Charles Middleton, then Comptroller of the Navy, representing the abuses which were likely to be practiced in this manner.
Despite the fact that he had had a successful career as comptroller of BuckLand Cheese and was probably comfortably well off, the ladies apparently did not consider him a catch.
It was twenty minutes short of 1000, when he had an appointment with Baltan Vrath, the comptroller general.