accountant

ac·coun·tant  (-kountnt)

n.

One that keeps, audits, and inspects the financial records of individuals or business concerns and prepares financial and tax reports.

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ac·countan·cy (-tn-s) n.

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accountant

Noun

a person who maintains and audits business accounts

accountancy n

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

accountant - someone who maintains and audits business accounts comptroller, controller auditor - a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization bean counter - an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures bookkeeper - someone who records the transactions of a business bourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise certified public accountant, CPA - an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state; "in addition to accounting and auditing, CPAs also prepare tax returns for individuals and corporations" chartered accountant - a British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter cost accountant - a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production

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accountant

noun auditor, book-keeper, bean counter (informal)

Translations

accountant [əˈkauntənt] n → contable m/f; contador(a) m/f (LAM)

accountant [əˈkauntənt] account n → comptable m/f

accountant [əˈkauntənt] account n → Buchhalter(in) m(f)

accountant [əˈkauntənt] n → ragioniere/a