accounts

Stories or tallies

Accounts is the plural of account, which at its core is a record or reckoning.

Financial accounts track money: checking accounts, savings accounts, accounts payable.

To give an account is to provide a description or explanation: eyewitness accounts of the crash.

By all accounts means according to what everyone says.

To take into account is to consider.

Someone may be called to account for their actions—held responsible.

financial

ledger

Financial record book

  • bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
  • balanceSteadiness or amount owed
  • debitsRecorded account reductions

credits · entries · reconciliation · double-entry · general ledger · trial balance · accruals · adjustments · financial statements · balance sheet

narrative

story

Account of events

recounting · testimony · version · firsthand · eyewitness · detailed · written · oral · historical · personal

responsibility

answerable

Liable to account

duty-bound · beholden · amenable · culpable · chargeable · stewardship · oversight · trust · commitment · obligation

banking

checking

Act of verification

transfer · balance · statement · overdraft · interest · routing number · direct deposit · signatory · freeze · close

digital

login

Authentication act or screen

settings · verification · authentication · two-factor · subscription · premium · deactivate · suspend · hacked · credentials

explanation

rationale

Stated basis for action

interpretation · context · analysis · breakdown · understanding · insight · explication · commentary · reckoning · rendering

Categories
Opposites
epistemic status

accountsguesses

Estimates without certainty

speculation · conjecture · suppositions · hunches · assumptions

financial records

accountsblack money

Illegally undeclared income

hidden funds · slush funds · hidden assets

narrative completeness

accountsfragments

Incomplete broken pieces

gaps · silences · omissions · lacunae · blanks

Phrases
Family

account, accountant, accountable, accounting, accounted, accountability, unaccountable, accountants, unaccounted

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