(uncountable, Britain, New Zealand, accounting) The function of compiling and providing financial information primarily by reports referred to as financial statements, including bookkeeping, systems design, analysis and interpretation of accounting information.

The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.

Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable. / Obliged to keep accurate records (of property or funds). / Liable to be called on to render an account.

One who renders account; one accountable. / A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).

(obsolete) Accountable.

(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.

(obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. / (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.

present participle of account

(business) The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business.