accountant

Noun
  1. Someone who maintains and audits business accounts (synset 109780826)
    is a type of: bourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
    subtypes:
    • auditor - a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization
    • bean counter - an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures
    • bookkeeper - someone who records the transactions of a business
    • certified public accountant, cpa - an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state
    • chartered accountant - a British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter
    • cost accountant - a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production
    same as: comptroller, controller

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