accounting-n; 5 Senses

Sense Number 1: explanation

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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PropBank: accounting.01
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: system of finances

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.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 2 4

Sense Number 3: financial occupation

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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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 3

Sense Number 4: balance statement

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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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 5

Sense Number 5: none of the above

Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)

Examples:

Mappings:
PropBank: NM