(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.

(obsolete) Accountable.

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

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.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of account

plural of account

simple past tense and past participle of account

plural of accountant