A person providing an account of events. / A person providing an accounting of expenditure or other actions.

plural of accounter

The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.

One who renders account; one accountable. / A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).

(obsolete) Accountable.

(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.

Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable. / Obliged to keep accurate records (of property or funds). / Liable to be called on to render an account.

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.

(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.

(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.