ACCOUNTANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accountancy mean? 

• ACCOUNTANCY (noun)
  The noun ACCOUNTANCY has 1 sense:

1. the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business

  Familiarity information: ACCOUNTANCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCOUNTANCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

accountancy; accounting

Hypernyms ("accountancy" is a kind of...):

business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)

Domain member category:

carry forward; carry over (transfer from one time period to the next)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accountancy"):

cost accounting (keeping account of the costs of items in production)

bookkeeping; clerking (the activity of recording business transactions)

inventory accounting (accounting that controls and evaluates inventory)

Derivation:

accountant (someone who maintains and audits business accounts)