accounting vs balance

accounting and balance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
accounting	Yes	No	No	No
balance	Yes	No	Yes	No

accounting (noun)	balance (noun)
the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business	a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
a system that provides quantitative information about finances	a weight that balances another weight
a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes	a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance	harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts	(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
	equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
	the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
	something left after other parts have been taken away
	equality of distribution
	a state of equilibrium

accounting (verb)	balance (verb)
	hold or carry in equilibrium
	compute credits and debits of an account
	bring into balance or equilibrium
	be in equilibrium