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ACCOUNTANCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business
Synonyms:
accountancy; accounting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("accountancy" is a kind of...):
business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)
Domain member category:
carry forward; carry over (transfer from one time period to the next)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accountancy"):
cost accounting (keeping account of the costs of items in production)
bookkeeping; clerking (the activity of recording business transactions)
inventory accounting (accounting that controls and evaluates inventory)
Derivation:
accountant (someone who maintains and audits business accounts)
