accountant

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ə.ˈkæʊn.(t)ən̩(t)/

Noun

accountant (plural accountants)

1. One who renders account; one accountable.
2. A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
3. (accounting) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
4. (accounting) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.

Related terms

• account

Translations

• Portuguese: contador, contadora
• Russian: отве́тчик
• Spanish: (Latin America) contador, contadora, (Spain) contable

Translations

• French: comptable
• German: Buchhalter, Buchhalterin
• Italian: contabile, ragioniere, capocarico
• Portuguese: contador, contabilista
• Russian: бухга́лтер
• Spanish: contable (Spain), contador (Latin America)

Translations

• French: comptable
• Portuguese: contador
• Russian: бухга́лтер

Translations

• French: expert-comptable, comptable
• German: Buchhalter, Buchhalterin
• Italian: ragioniere
• Portuguese: contador, contabilista
• Russian: бухга́лтер
• Spanish: contable (Spain), contador (Latin America)

Adjective

accountant

1. (obsolete) Accountable.

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