ACCOUNTANCY

accountancy, accounting

(noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

accountancy (countable and uncountable, plural accountancies)

(uncountable, British, NZ, 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.

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

Source: Wiktionary


Ac*count"an*cy, n.

Definition: The art or employment of an accountant.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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3 July 2025

SENSE

(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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