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1accounting — ac‧coun‧ting [əˈkaʊntɪŋ] noun [uncountable] 1. ACCOUNTING JOBS the usual word for the profession of accountancy in the US 2. ACCOUNTING the work of keeping a company s financial records, recording its income and expenses, and its business deals:… …
2Accounting scandals — Accounting scandals, or corporate accounting scandals, are political and business scandals which arise with the disclosure of misdeeds by trusted executives of large public corporations. Such misdeeds typically involve complex methods for… …
3Accounting scholarship — is an academic discipline oriented towards the profession of accounting, usually taught at a business school. Since accounting is a highly technical, standards oriented profession, both practitioners and academics may claim to be experts.… …
4Accounting software — is application software that records and processes accounting transactions within functional modules such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and trial balance. It functions as an accounting information system. It may be developed… …
5Accounting for leases in the United States — is regulated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).Accounting for leases by the lesseeA lease is defined as a contractual agreement between a lessor and lessee that gives the lessee the right to use specific property, either owned by …
6Accounting reform — is an expansion to accounting rules that goes beyond the realm of financial measures for both individual economic entities and national economies. It is advocated by those who consider the focus of the present standards and practices wholly… …
7accounting — ac·count·ing n 1: an often court ordered presentment or examination of accounts a complete accounting would be necessary to determine the nature of the expenditures Case & Comment 2: the settlement by judicial action of the assets of a… …
8Accounting Standards Board — (ASB) The accounting standards issuing body. The ASB issues accounting standards in the form of Financial Reporting Standards (FRSs) and has adopted those standards developed by its predecessors in the form of Statements of Standard Accounting… …
9accounting period — Under the Companies Act 1985 an accounting period runs from one accounting reference date to the next (not less than six months and not more than eighteen months) for which a company prepares financial statements and statutory accounts. The… …
10accounting system — ➔ system * * * accounting system UK US noun ACCOUNTING ► [C] a particular way in which a company or organization records and reports its financial information: »Your accounting system needs to be designed to track costs and monitor all company… …
