accountantnoun [ C ]
uk/əˈkaʊn.tənt/us/əˈkaʊn.t̬ənt/B1 someone who keeps or examines the records of money received, paid, and owed by a company or person:
a firm of accountants
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- Any accountant worth their salt should be aware of the latest changes in taxation.
- His accountant had aided and abetted him in the fraud.
- The upper middle class tend to go into business or the professions, becoming, for example, lawyers, doctors or accountants.
- Trainee accountants average £12,000 per year.
- At the end of the year, the accountant goes over the books.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Accounting
- accountancy
- accounting
- accounts
- arrears
- auditor
- balance
- bean counter
- bill
- capital
- capital gains
- costing
- expenditure
- false accounting
- fraudulent accounting
- FRS
- GAAP
- housekeeping
- imprest
- loss
- square
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