(obsolete, accounting) To perform basic bookkeeping. / (obsolete) To be numerate; to be capable of arithmetic.

(accounting) An account in the net worth section of the balance sheet of an entity such as sole proprietorships and partnerships. In this context, the "capital account" (or, in cases of more than one owner, the "sum of all individual capital accounts") is the residual difference between total assets minus total liabilities, or the "net worth" of the entity. The term should not be confused with similar terms such as "working capital," "capital asset," "capital expenditure," and "capital lease."

(accounting, usually in the plural) Amount recorded as being owed by a customer for sales on credit or on account.

(business) A person who is in charge of sales to one or more named customers or to a specified segment of the market, especially in B2B marketing; supposedly refers to a somewhat more responsible job than the term salesman.

(finance) A denomination of value used in keeping accounts, for which there may, or may not, be an equivalent coin.

(business) An executive in an advertising agency, or public relations firm who manages a client's account.

(business, euphemistic, sometimes humorous) Financial accounting practices which are usually not explicitly illegal, but which are unorthodox, imaginative, usually misleading, and of questionable ethics.

(Britain and Canada) Alternative spelling of checking account

A bank account owned jointly by two or more persons.

plural of joint account