ACCOUNTANCY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)