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

(obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. / (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.

The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.

(uncountable, Britain, New Zealand, accounting) The function of compiling and providing financial information primarily by reports referred to as financial statements, including bookkeeping, systems design, analysis and interpretation of accounting information.

(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.

present participle of account

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of account

plural of account

simple past tense and past participle of account

(US, Britain, colloquial) Of no value or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account.