Account vs. Accounting

A narrative or record of events.

The practice or profession of maintaining the financial records of a business, including bookkeeping as well as the preparation of statements concerning the assets, liabilities, and operating results.

A reason given for a particular action or event

Present participle of account

A report relating to one's conduct

(business) The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business.

A basis or ground

A relaying of events; justification of actions.

A formal banking, brokerage, or business relationship established to provide for regular services, dealings, and other financial transactions.

(law) An equitable remedy requiring wrongfully obtained profits to be distributed to those who deserve them.

A precise list or enumeration of financial transactions.

A convincing explanation that reveals basic causes;

A sum of money deposited for checking, savings, or brokerage use.

A system that provides quantitative information about finances

A customer having a business or credit relationship with a firm

The occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business

A private access to a computer system or online service, usually requiring a password to enter.

A bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts

Worth, standing, or importance

A statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance;

Profit or advantage

To consider as being; deem. See Usage Note at as1.

(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.

(banking) A bank account.

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.

A record of events; a relation or narrative.

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.

(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

(uncountable) Profit; advantage.

To provide explanation.

To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.

To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.

(transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).

(intransitive) To consider that.

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.

(intransitive) To establish the location for someone.

(intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).

To count.

To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).

(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.

(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.

A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.

To reckon; to compute; to count.

To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; - with to.

To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.

To recount; to relate.

To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

To render an account; to answer in judgment; - with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; - with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

A formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services;

The act of informing by verbal report;

A record or narrative description of past events;

A short account of the news;

A statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance;

A statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.;

An itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered;

Grounds;

Importance or value;

The quality of taking advantage;

Be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something;

Keep an account of

To give an account or representation of in words;

Furnish a justifying analysis or explanation;