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BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Accountant

  • a professional person who maintains and checks the business records of a person or organization and prepares forms and reports for financial purposes

Wiktionary Definition for: Accountant

  • One who renders account; one accountable.
  • A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s)
  • One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
  • One who's profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually but not always financial records.
  • obsolete Accountable - Shakespeare

Additional Resources

Agreement With Accountant
This is a template for agreement between the Client and the Accountant. The Client, in order to properly conduct its business, employs the Accountant. The Accountant is duly licensed by the laws of the state and engaged in the business of providing independent accounting services and assistance to clients. This...
Tags: Accountant, Agreement, Home Business Online, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Add An Accountant To Your Business Team
From the executive summary: ‘Good business accounting is not just about balance sheets and tax returns. With the help of a competent accountant, organizations can track their business's finances and make sure it is running at the optimum level. An accountant is a great resource to tap into for business...
Tags: Team, Business Consulting, Accountant, Business Services, Taxes, Balance Sheets, Free Trade, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance
White papers 2002-05-13
SEC names acting chief accountant
JACKSON M. DAY, CO-DEPUTY CHIEF ACCOUNTANT, HAS BEEN NAMED ACTING chief accountant of the Securities & Exchange Commission SEC. Day has served as deputy chief accountant since September 15, 2000. Before joining the SEC's staff, he was a partner in Ernst & Young's national office of professional practice in New...
Tags: accountant, accounting, FINANCE, SEC
Research articles 2002-12-01
Sample General Accountant Resume
This sample general accountant resume will give you a quickstart on building an effective and optimized resume for your job application. Users can feel free to customize and edit this sample general accountant resume as per their requirement for job application. This sample general accountant resume will go a long...
Tags: Accountant, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Sample Junior Accountant Resume
This sample junior accountant resume will give you a quickstart on building an effective and optimized resume for your job application. Users can feel free to customize and edit this sample junior accountant resume as per their requirement for job application. This sample junior accountant resume will go a long...
Tags: Accountant, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Sample Senior Accountant Resume
This sample senior accountant resume will give you a quickstart on building an effective and optimized resume for your job application. Users can feel free to customize and edit this sample senior accountant resume as per their requirement for job application. This sample senior accountant resume will go a long...
Tags: Accountant, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Up for review
With the tax-filing season in full swing, it makes sense to take a good, hard look at your accountant and the work he or she has done for you over the past year. Is your accountant helping you save money? Is your business better off as a result of your...
Tags: accountant, accounting, FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes
Research articles 1998-04-01
Accountants: the why and what for
Accountants: The Why And What ForYou need an accountant. All businesses do. It doesn't matter if yours is a huge corporation or a mom-and-pop grocery. It is foolhardy to attempt to operate a business without retaining the services of a skilled financial professional who is well versed in your line...
Tags: accountant, FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes
Research articles 1990-02-01
Sample Certified Public Accountant Resume
This sample certified public accountant resume will give you a quickstart on building an effective and optimized resume for your job application. Users can feel free to customize and edit this sample certified public accountant resume as per their requirement for job application. This sample certified public accountant resume will...
Tags: Certified Public Accountant, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Scott Taub named SEC acting chief accountant
Scott Taub, a deputy chief accountant at the Securities & Exchange Commission since September 2002, has been named acting chief accountant. SEC Chairman Christopher Cox made the announcement last month. Before joining the SEC staff, Taub was a partner in the Professional Standards Group of the former public accounting...
Tags: accountant, accounting, FINANCE, fraud, Leadership, Litigation, SEC
Research articles 2005-12-01
Non-disclosures could incur criminal liability.
Sep 14, 2001 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- A gap in the Corporations Law is purportedly being exploited. The Australian Taxation Office ATO and the Australian Federal Police are investigating a Queensland accountant who is promoting tax schemes to clients. It...
Tags: accountant, Australian Taxation Office, FINANCE, SALES, Taxes
Research articles 2001-09-13
Former Enron accountant faces more questioning
HOUSTON -- A former in-house Enron Corp. accountant who signed off on a year-end 1999 alleged sham sale of several barges to Merrill Lynch & Co. told prosecutors he thought the deal was wrong from the beginning. Now he awaits questioning from the lawyer representing his former boss,...
Tags: Enron Corp., Government, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., prosecutor, SOFTWARE, witness
Research articles 2004-10-04
Former Accountant Begins Life Anew as Pueblo, Colo., Candle Peddler.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Sep. 22--After 23 years as an accountant, Cindy Groff was ready for a change. Sep. 22--After 23 years as an accountant, Cindy Groff was ready for a change.
Tags: Candle Corp.
Research articles 2000-09-24
Robert K. Herdman Is SEC Chief Accountant
ROBERT K. HERDMAN, CPA, TOOK OVER AS CHIEF ACCOUNTANT OF THE SECURITIES & Exchange Commission SEC on October 8, 2001. He had been vice-chair of Ernst & Young, overseeing the professional practice of its Americas Assurance and Advisory Business Services. He also was the senior partner responsible for the firm's...
Tags: accountant, accounting, FINANCE, SEC
Research articles 2001-12-01
Donald Nicolaisen is new SEC chief accountant
DONALD T. NICOLAISEN, CPA, A SENIOR PARTNER AT PRICEWATERHOUSE-Coopers LLP, has been named chief accountant at the Securities & Exchange Commission. He will join the SEC late this month. Nicolaisen, 59, succeeds Robert Herdman, who resigned last November amid controversy leading to the selection of William Webster as then chairman...
Tags: accountant, accounting, auditing, commission, FINANCE, SALES, SEC
Research articles 2003-09-01
Systemax Inc. Announces Notification by Certifying Accountant of Its Decision Not to Seek Re-Appointment
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- Systemax Inc. (NYSE:SYX), a leading distributor and manufacturer of PC hardware, related computer products and industrial products in North America and Europe, announced today that its certifying accountant, Deloitte & Touche LLP, notified the Company that it will not stand for re-appointment as the Company's independent...
Tags: Audit Committee, Company
Research articles 2005-11-11
`A Personal Outrage': FBI charges synagogue accountant with
Eric J. Greenberg The Jewish Week 11-15-1996 `A Personal Outrage': FBI charges synagogue accountant with embezzling. $500,000 in three-year scheme. Michael Kleinberg, a 39-year-old Manhattan accountant, was thought of as a likable mensch by the people he worked for over the last...
Tags: accountant, FBI, Government
Research articles 1996-11-15
BP Zambia
Rebecca Handahu ACMA has become a final reporting accountant at BP Zambia. She moves from Unilever Zambia, where she was a management accountant.
Tags: British Petroleum Co plc
Research articles 2008-04-01
The Monterey County Herald, Calif., Business People Column.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 19--AUDITOR, ACCOUNTANT JOIN KASAVAN AND POPE: The Certified Public Accounting Firm of Kasavan and Pope has added Prachi Shroff and Maria Ramirez to its staff. Shroff has been hired as an audit senior. She received her ...
Tags: accountant, Allstate Corp., industry, women
Research articles 1998-10-20
PCAOB, SEC name Acting Chairs; SEC departures.(public company accounting oversight board)(securities and exchange commission)(Brief Article)
The SEC on November 14 designated Scott Taub to serve as Acting Chief Accountant. Taub had served as the commission's Deputy Chief Accountant since September 2002. The SEC on November 14 designated Scott Taub to serve as Acting Chief Accountant. Taub had served as...
Tags: accounting, commission, SEC, security
Research articles 2006-01-01
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