Commentary: ACCOUNTING[+event] An explanation that reveals basic causes. Somebody's account of what happened.
Examples:
He was unable to give a clear accounting for his actions.
I guess there's no accounting for taste.
His accounting of the story took all night!
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Commentary: A system of rules that provides information about finances, or any subset of that system.
Examples:
My computer's accounting program makes it easy to see how much money I've lost.
John's system of accounting got pretty disorganized after a few months.
I put all the expenditures in the "accounting" section of my company ledger.
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Commentary: What an accountant does for a living, and what you learn in accounting classes. The practice of performing financial analyses.
Examples:
A lot of companies go bankrupt because of incompetent accounting.
I'm going into accounting after I graduate.
Intelli-Soft has a large, well-trained accounting department.
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Commentary: A document, usually from a bank, that contains a list of recent transactions and the resulting balance.
Examples:
PNC Bank sends me an accounting every month.
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Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)
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