capital account vs accounting

capital account and accounting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
capital account	Yes	No	No	No
accounting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, accounting is a hypernym of capital account; that is, accounting is a word with a broader meaning than capital account:

capital account: (finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date
accounting: a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance

Other hypernyms of capital account include account, account statement.

As nouns, accounting is a hypernym of capital account; that is, accounting is a word with a broader meaning than capital account:

capital account: (economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities
accounting: a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance

Other hypernyms of capital account include account, account statement.

capital account (noun)	accounting (noun)
(finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date	the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business
(economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities	a system that provides quantitative information about finances
	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