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Meaning of accountancy in English

accountancy
noun [ U ]
UK
uk
/əˈkaʊn.tən.si/ us
/əˈkaʊn.t̬ən.si/
(US accounting)
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the job of being an accountant:
He works in accountancy.
an accountancy firm
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(Definition of accountancy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

accountancy | Business English

accountancy
noun [ U ]
UK
uk
/əˈkaʊntənsi/ us
(also accounting)
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ACCOUNTING
the job of being an accountant:
She chose to follow a career in accountancy after graduating.
an accountancy firm
the education that is needed to become an accountant:
The board claimed he did not have sufficient management expertise despite his accountancy qualification and experience.
(Definition of accountancy from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of accountancy

accountancy
Translation (unlike the law, accountancy, medicine, and to a large extent pharmacy) is in many domains an unprotected profession.
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At this lofty sentiment, however, biographical accountancy can restrain itself no longer.
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The accountancy profession did not seek graduates to improve social standing.
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Managerialist discourse is itself notably disembodied, drawing on traditions like economics, accountancy, organisation and methods that prize abstraction and emotional distance.
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Changes in the governance of medicine therefore parallel similar changes affecting other institutions such as education, accountancy and law.
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Many declarations are made directly and electronically from employers' staff administration packs and accountancy packages.
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Here again the debates mirrored those that have taken place in the accountancy profession.
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The accountancy department attracted them most because it promised better salaries.
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In these circumstances the logic of accountancy was stiffened by a bureaucratic mode of reasoning, so he simply (as they say) followed orders.
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Furthermore, these demands are being shaped increasingly by the language of accountancy.
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This essay urges that the uses of quantification in science, social science, and bureaucratic social and economic policy are analogous in important ways to accountancy.
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Historians of accountancy are right to draw attention to the role of financial regulation among the measures for establishing imperial control.
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Accountancy was sufficiently attractive and conservative to keep its reforms to a minimum.
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Those consistently correct also reported the highest level of professional qualifications, including accountancy and actuarial qualifications.
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Accountancy was one of the new professions of the nineteenth century but, as with solicitors, professional exclusivity operated by traditional means.
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會計工作, 會計職業…
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会计工作, 会计职业…
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会計士の仕事, 経理の仕事…
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księgowość, rachunkowość…
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