the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | the act of cancelling from an account a bad debt or a worthless asset |
a system that provides quantitative information about finances | (accounting) reduction in the book value of an asset |
a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes | |
a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | |
a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts | |