counting house
Where ledgers live
A counting house is an office or building where a business keeps its financial records and conducts accounting.
The term is historical, evoking 18th- and 19th-century commerce: The king was in his counting house, counting out his money.
Modern equivalents would be accounting department or finance office.
Miserly, cold-hearted person
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
- VictorianOf a prim era
- clerkOffice record-keeper
- quillFeather used for writing
inkwell · abacus · tally · strongbox · moneylender · merchant · partner · apprentice
One who sells wares
- tradeExchange of commodities
- mercantileRelating to trade
- inventoryCatalog of held assets
- goodsThings for sale
shipment · consignment · import · export · commodities · wholesale · broker · factor
Financial record book
- journalRecord of daily events
- daybookDaily transaction register
- folioSingle-fold page format
- entryAccess or submission
posting · debit · credit · balance · double-entry · accounts · reconciliation · trial balance
Scrooge
Miserly, cold-hearted person
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
- VictorianOf a prim era
- clerkOffice record-keeper
quill · inkwell · abacus · tally · strongbox · moneylender · merchant · partner · apprentice · coal scuttle
merchant
One who sells wares
- tradeExchange of commodities
- mercantileRelating to trade
- inventoryCatalog of held assets
goods · shipment · consignment · import · export · commodities · wholesale · broker · factor · exchange
ledger
Financial record book
entry · posting · debit · credit · balance · double-entry · accounts · reconciliation · trial balance · audit
vault
Secure storage chamber
gold · silver · coin · currency · notes · deposit · withdrawal · interest · usury · moneychanger
- Victorian establishmentsapothecary, coffeehouse, general store, gin palace, haberdashery
- guild roomsgreat hall, meeting hall, council chamber
- trade poststrading post, entrepot, emporium, caravanserai, depot
- shopsshop, boutique, store, bakery, bookstores
- office lifecubicle, desk job, desk jobs, office job, full-time job
- trade & commercetrade, exports, imports, tariffs, merchant
counting housealmshouse
Charitable home for poor
poorhouse · debtors' prison · bank vault · treasury · mint
counting housefactory
Industrial production facility
manufactory · factory floor · workshop · forge · mill
count, house, counting, counts, counted, counter, counters, recount, recounts