accountancy

English

Etymology

From account +‎ -ancy.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈkaʊnt.ən.si/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

accountancy (countable and uncountable, plural accountancies)

1. (uncountable, British, New Zealand, often Philippines, accounting) The function of compiling and providing financial information primarily by reports referred to as financial statements, including bookkeeping, systems design, analysis and interpretation of accounting information.

   professional accountancy

   chartered accountancy

   accountancy firm

   She studied accountancy before joining a firm.

2. (countable, accounting) A company or organisation that performs such a function.

Derived terms

• forensic accountancy

Translations

the profession of accounting

• Asturian: contabilidá f
• Bulgarian: счетоводство (sčetovodstvo)
• Catalan: comptabilitat f
• Dutch: boekhouden (nl) n
• Finnish: kirjanpito (fi), laskentatoimi (fi)
• French: comptabilité (fr) f
• Galician: contabilidade (gl) f
• Georgian: ანგარიშწარმოება (angarišc̣armoeba), ბუღალტერია (buɣalṭeria), ბუხჰალტერია (buxhalṭeria)
• German: Buchführungswesen
• Greek: λογιστική (el) f (logistikí)
• Interlingua: contabilitate
• Italian: contabilità (it) f
• Kazakh: бухгалтерлік есеп (buxgalterlık esep)
• Kyrgyz: эсеп (ky) (esep), бухгалтердик эсеп (ky) (buhgalterdik esep)
• Polish: rachunkowość f
• Portuguese: contabilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: contabilitate (ro) f
• Russian: счетово́дство (ru) n (sčetovódstvo), бухгалте́рия (ru) f (buxgaltérija), бухга́лтерский учёт m (buxgálterskij učót)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рачуново̀дство n

  Roman: računovòdstvo (sh) n

• Spanish: contabilidad (es) f
• Swahili: uhasibu
• Tagalog: palatuusan
• Tamil: கணக்கியல் (kaṇakkiyal)
• Thai: การบัญชี (gaan-ban-chii)
• Ukrainian: бухгалте́рія (uk) f (buxhaltérija), рахівни́цтво n (raxivnýctvo)
• Welsh: cyfrifeg
• West Frisian: boekhâlde n