accounting

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of account

Noun

• The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business.
• A relaying of events; justification of actions.
• An equitable remedy requiring wrongfully obtained profits to be distributed to those who deserve them.

Adjective

• Of or relating to accounting.

Origin

• First attested in the late 14th century.
• account + -ing