Dictionary-of-Human-Resources-Management

accountability 3 accrue
business with a firm and has an account
with it Smith Brothers is one of our
largest accounts. Our sales people
call on their best accounts twice a
month. 4. to keep the accounts to
write each sum of money in the account
book The bookkeeper’s job is to enter
all the money received in the accounts.
5. notice to take account of inflation,
to take inflation into account to assume
that there will be a specific percentage
of inflation when making
calculations verb to account for to
explain and record a money transaction
to account for a loss or a discrepancy
The reps have to account for all their
expenses to the sales manager.
accountability /əkaυntəbIlIti/
noun the fact of being responsible to
someone for something (such as the accountability
of directors to the
shareholders)
accountable /əkaυntəb(ə)l/ adjective
referring to a person who has to explain
what has taken place or who is
responsible for something (NOTE: you
are accountable to someone for
something)
accountancy /əkaυntənsi/ noun the
work of an accountant They are studying
accountancy or They are accountancy
students. (NOTE: American
English is accounting in this meaning)
accountant /əkaυntənt/ noun a person
who keeps a company’s accounts
The chief accountant of a manufacturing
group. The accountant has shown
a sharp variance in our labour costs.
account director /əkaυnt daI-
rektə/ noun a person who works in an
advertising agency and who oversees
various account managers who are each
responsible for specific clients
account executive /əkaυnt Iɡ-
zekjυtIv/ noun an employee of an organisation
such as a bank, public relations
firm, or advertising agency who is
responsible for looking after particular
clients and handling their business with
the organisation
accounting /əkaυntIŋ/ noun the
work of recording money paid, received,
borrowed or owed accounting
methods accounting procedures an
accounting system an accounting
machine
‘…applicants will be professionally qualified
and have a degree in Commerce or Accounting’
[Australian Financial Review]
accounting period /əkaυntIŋ
pIəriəd/ noun a period of time at the
end of which the firm’s accounts are
made up
accounts department /əkaυnts
dIpɑtmənt/ noun a department in a
company which deals with money paid,
received, borrowed or owed
accounts manager /əkaυnts
mnIdʒə/ noun the manager of an accounts
department
accounts payable /əkaυnts
peIəb(ə)l/ noun money owed by a
company
accounts receivable /əkaυnts rI-
sivəb(ə)l/ noun money owed to a
company
accreditation /əkredIteIʃ(ə)n/
noun the process of certifying the competence
of a person in a certain area
accreditation of union officials official
recognition by a company that certain
employees are representatives of a trade
union and are treated as such by the
company
accreditation of prior learning
/əkredIteIʃ(ə)n əv praIə lnIŋ/
noun a process that enables people to
obtain formal recognition of qualifications
and experience that they have
gained before joining an organisation
(NOTE: accreditation of prior learning
may be used to support the award of a
vocational qualification)
accredited /əkredItId/ adjective referring
to an agent who is appointed by
a company to act on its behalf
accrual /əkruəl/ noun a gradual increase
by addition accrual of interest
automatic addition of interest to capital
accrual rate /əkruəl reIt/ noun the
rate at which an employee’s pension increases
as each year of service is completed,
so forming the basis for
calculating their pension
accrue /əkru/ verb 1. to record a financial
transaction in accounts when it
takes place, and not when payment is