From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishaccountantac‧coun‧tant /əˈkaʊntənt/ ●●○ noun [countable] BFBOsomeone whose job is to keep and check financial accounts, calculate taxes etc
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accountant• Just as an accountant might use a financial model, the analyst can develop an entity model.• They pick on an accountant because an accountant needs a good name and has been partly in control of the funds anyway.• He wanted an accountant who was a cheerleader rather than a realist.• Doctors and accountants are one thing; husbands on the brink of divorce or even drug barons close to capture are another.• Chartered accountants who passed the IoT examination would be entitled to join the Faculty, or the IoT, or both.• This will be an especially interesting time for accountants, as Andrew Baird, of specialist software company 4Sight Communications, explains.• The changing role of public accountants, management accountants, and internal auditors also will spur job growth.• Such accountants may then find that they have shrinking roles and power within the corporation.From Longman Business Dictionaryaccountantac‧coun‧tant /əˈkaʊntənt/ noun [countable] a professional person whose job is to keep and check the financial records of an organization, or to advise clients on tax and other financial mattersPeople setting up in business on their own really need to employ an accountant.Accountancy British EnglishSYNAccounting AmE is the profession or work done by an accountant. A bookkeeper is someone whose job is to make an official record of all the money received into and paid out of a business. This activity is called bookkeeping. An auditor is a specialist accountant who carries out an audit, which is a check on the truth and honesty of a company’s accounts (=records showing money coming into and going out of a business). Auditors are independent, not employees of a company whose accounts they are checking. In the US, auditors check to see if a company’s accounts obey the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), a set of rules about how things should be shown in financial records. Accountants in many other countries, including countries in the European Union, use a similar set of accounting standards called the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). After the introduction of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, all US public companies must send a yearly report to the Securities and Exchange Commission showing that the financial accounts are correct and true in every detail. → certified accountant → certified management accountant → certified public accountant → chartered accountant → chartered certified accountant → chief accountant → cost accountant → forensic accountant 