单词 | accountant |
释义 | accountant (once / 1943 pages) n An accountant is a person whose job involves keeping financial records for a business. To be a great accountant, you've got to be good at math. When a company hires an accountant, it turns over the management of its accounts to that person, who is responsible for keeping track of spending, income, and any other financial information. An accountant is also held accountable for the accuracy of a company's books, and usually has to be officially certified before working in the field. The word comes from account, by way of the Old French aconter, "to count." WORD FAMILYaccountant: accountancy, accountants, accountantship+/account: accountable, accountant, accounted, accounting, accounts/accountability: accountabilities/accountable: accountability, accountably, unaccountable/accounting: accountings/unaccountable: unaccountablest, unaccountably USAGE EXAMPLESHolcomb’s office says that Klutz will be the first certified public accountant to be Indiana auditor. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Branstad spokesman Ben Hammes says the group’s accountant is still gathering information on the contributors and plans to file an amended return disclosing them. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) After graduating from Cambridge University, he became a chartered accountant. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) n someone who maintains and audits business accounts Syn|Hypo|Hyper comptroller, controller auditor a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization bean counteran accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures bookkeepersomeone who records the transactions of a business CPA, certified public accountantan accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state chartered accountanta British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter cost accountanta specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production internal auditoran auditor who is an employee of the company whose records are audited and who provides information to the management and board of directors bourgeois, businessperson a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise |
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