balance vs accounting

balance and accounting both are nouns.

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

balance (noun)	accounting (noun)
a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity	the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business
a weight that balances another weight	a system that provides quantitative information about finances
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 convincing explanation that reveals basic causes
harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)	a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane	a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts
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

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