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accountancy

US/əˈkaʊnt.ən.si/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,321 of 15,258leans written

Accountancy is the study and practice of keeping financial records. Study accountancy, a career in accountancy, an accountancy firm.

Britain says accountancy for the profession and accounting for the activity, and America uses accounting for both. Double-entry bookkeeping, the method it rests on, has been in use since fifteenth-century Venice.

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Definitions of accountancy

  1. 1nounaccountancyThe study and practice of keeping financial records.B2+

    “After university, he trained in accountancy and joined a firm in the city.”

accountancy is a profession.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *pewH-

  2. Middle English

    acounte

  3. English

    account

  4. English, today

    accountancy

Built from

  • aconter · Old French — to reckon

From account + -ancy. account comes from Middle English acounte. From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in School Subjects

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accountancy in the wild

  • Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations.

    Accounting

  • An accountant is a practitioner of accounting or accountancy.

    Accountant

  • Also, employers in industry generally prefer to hire applicants with a master's in accountancy (or an M.B.A. with a concentration in accounting) and/or with professional certification.

    Bachelor of Accountancy

  • Under its charter, ACCA's principal objective is advancing the science of accountancy, financial management and related subjects.

    Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the aconter family

account

accountancy — used about once every 54,060 pages · #14,321 · point at the bar for the others

  • accountant
  • unaccountable
  • accountability