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A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
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A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
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A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
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To reckon; to compute; to count.
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Official report of the receipts and expenses of a manorial estate. (Bennett, Judith M. Women in the Medieval English Countryside, 233)
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A record of financial transactions for an asset or individual, such as at a bank, brokerage, credit card company, or retail store. More generally, an arrangement between a buyer and a seller in which payments are to be made in the future.
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The bookkeeping record of a customerâ€(tm)s transaction and credit (or debit) balances. This record usually includes confirmation of transactions, listing of holdings and/or open positions, cash and/or cash equivalents, beginning and ending liquidating value.
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Object Code Required Field. Account replaces the 3 digit Object Code. It classifies the nature of accounting transactions: assets, liabilities, fund balances, revenues, expenses, and transfers.
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A logical classification in the University's chart of accounts that identifies types of assets, liabilities, revenue, expense, and net assets.
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Record used to summarize all increases and decreases in a particular asset.
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six-digit numeric reference that identifies revenues and expenses and indicates how these funds are being spent or earned.
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A record established in the accounting system to accumulate activity related to a specific purpose within an organizational unit of the University, with one individual having primary responsibility for authorizing the activity.
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Summary of the changes in a particular asset or equity in financial terms.
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A functional unit that serves a particular accounting purpose where one person has primary responsibility for it. Accounts include balance sheets (GL) and revenue/expenditure accounts (SL). A building (in the plant funds area) is an example of the former and the President's Office is representative of the latter.
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A PeopleSoft Chartfield that tracks Asset, Liability, Net Asset, Revenue, Expense classifications
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A number assigned to similar types of transactions (e.g. travel, professional development).
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An FRS account is a six digit number representing a functional unit. May be either a General Ledger or a Subsidiary Ledger account. A CMS Account is a UConn Computer Center Mainframe Account.
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An individual record of increases and decreases of a financial statement item.
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aA form that must be completed by the conservator and filed yearly with the court. It must also be served on all interested persons. Accounts may be labeled "1st annual," "2nd annual," etc., and "final account," depending on how many years the file has been opened. It is a detailed statement of the assets being managed for an individual by the conservator. It lists "Income and other receipts,"  "Expenses and other disbursements," and "Itemized assets remaining at the end of the accounting period."  The filing fee for an account is generally $20.   PC 583 or PC 584 (either one may be used)
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A form that must be completed by a personal representative and served on all interested persons on a yearly basis.  If the estate is under supervised administration, the account must be filed with the court annually.  If the estate is under unsupervised administration, the account may be filed with the court, but it is not required. Accounts will be labeled "1st annual," "2nd annual," etc., and "final account," depending on how many years the estate has been opened, generally. It is a detailed statement of the estate assets that are being managed by the personal representative and includes "Income and other receipts," "Expenses and other disbursements," and Itemized assets remaining at the end of the accounting period." The filing fee for an account is generally $20.  PC 583 or  PC 584 (either one may be used)
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A fiscal and accounting entity with a self-balancing set of general ledger codes in which cash and other financial resources, together with all related liabilities and residual equities or balances, and changes therein, are recorded and segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with special regulations, restrictions, or limitations. For reporting purposes, the state identifies certain accounts as major funds, and administratively combines all remaining accounts into roll-up funds. Refer to MAJOR FUND, and ROLL-UP FUND.
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A record of the transactions of an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, or other fiduciary, usually filed in court. A fiduciary may wish to file an account in court in order to be released from liability, and a court may order a fiduciary to file an account whenever there are questions about the administration of the estate or trust.
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A page (or card or computer equivalent) with a debit (left-hand side) and a credit (right-hand side) which is used to record accounting transactions.
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a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"
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a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance; "they send me an accounting every month"
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a basic feature of a transactional move
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a category of transactions related to a specific type of asset, liability, equity, income or expense
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a data element in FFS in which USGS records costs
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a device for storing data from transactions
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an electronic record of the balance of John Doe within the big overall HSA trust
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an individual form or record used to show changes in each asset, liability, and owner's equity item
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a place where all the information referring to a particular asset, liability, capital, income or expense
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a record of increases and decreases in a specific asset, liability, equity, revenue, or expense item
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a record you create in ClickBank where you note your personal details, your address, and some other information the system requires from you
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a relationship between the merchant and the financial institution which processes transactions for that merchant
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a separate record for each type of asset, liability, equity, revenue, and expense used to show the beginning balance and to record the increases and decreases for a period and the resulting ending balance at the end of a period
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is XE "account" a partition or sub-division of the financial records. Accounts contain transactions (financial events) of types found by accountants to be similar. The sales meaning, where account refers to a customer, is not used in this book.
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ChartField segment which identifies the specific type of asset, liability, equity, revenue or expense in each transaction line (e.g., Accounts Receivable, 9-month faculty salary, Office Supplies).
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a record of debit and credit entries to cover transactions involving a particular person; proof of a debt.
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Accounts are used to record and summarize financial transactions as assets, liabilities, revenues, or expenditures. The university will use a six digit number that combines the functionality of our present object code and general ledger code. Examples:Assets (1 or 2 xxxxx) 120000 – Cash in Bank; Liabilities (3 or 4 xxxxx) 311000 – Accounts Payable; Net Assets (5xxxxx); 549000 – Unrestricted Net Assets (i.e., Fund Balance); Revenues (6xxxxx) 671200 – Sales of Services; Expenses (7xxxxx) 740501 – In-State Travel.
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A record of a monetary transaction maintained in the accounting ledger. It may be a classification of expenditure or revenue. Example: "Office Expense" is an account in the Services and Supplies expenditure category.
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In an accounting or bookkeeping system this would be a record summarizing all the information pertaining to a single item in the accounting equation.
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A record of business transaction, used to record increases & decreases in a business'es assets, liabities and net worth.
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A record of a business transaction. When you buy something on credit, the company you are dealing with sets up an "account". This means it sets up a record of what you buy and what you pay. You will do the same thing with any customers to whom you extend credit.
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A document on business transactions (deals). When you buy something on credit, the company you deal with draws a bill. This means, it has recorded what you're buying and how much you pay for that. You have to perform similar operation towards any customer you open a credit for. This notion can also refer to the category of expenses and assets, where a record of operation is made, for example, an account "transport expenses" can cover all accounts of expenses incurred during a business trip.
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The delineation of assets, expenses, liabilities, and revenues in the G/L, to which debit and credit entries are posted to record changes of value in the account.
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Consumer account, which consists of (student) pay-type status records, meal records, payment records, and ala Carte records. Cash and Visitor records are also located in Accounts
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The account ChartField classifies the type of revenue or expense, such as professional salary expense, sales of goods, or of balance sheet items, such as assets, liabilities or equity. Intelligence exists in the first digit of the five digit numeric code and categorizes the account value as one of five account types. The remaining four digits are used to designate more specific account classifications within the broad groupings. See UHS Account Codes.
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In Banner, the 5-digit number that identifies the kind of transaction taking place. Equivalent to the FRS object code.
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Record of financial transactions. Credit extended. Commercial relationship involving credit. A customer. A financial fund.
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Formal record of transactions of a particular type expressed in money or other unit of measurement and maintained in a ledger.
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Account means the account that is established under the Plan to record your purchases, redemptions and refunds of Tuition Certificates under the Plan.
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a record of financial transactions; usually refers to a specific category or type, such as travel expense account or purchase account.
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Formal record that represents, in words, money or other unit of measurement, certain resources, claims to such resources, transactions or other events that result in changes to those resources and claims.
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A summary record of the changes in a particular asset, liability, or owners' equity.
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An accounting record in which the results of transactions are accumulated; shows increases, decreases, and a balance.
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Account for: state reasons for, report on. Give an account of: narrate a series of events or transactions
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A section in a ledger devoted to a single aspect of a business (eg. a Bank account, Wages account, Office expenses account). [Go to source
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Record of all transactions.
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a record of all the debits and credits chronologically posted to a ledger showing how each transaction affects a particular phase of a business. Entries are usually stated in monetary figures and reflect the current balances, if any.
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A record of a business transaction. A contract arrangement, written or unwritten, to purchase and take delivery with payment to be made later as arranged.
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In the context of bookkeeping, refers to the ledger pages ...
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1. A record (usually one of a number of similar records in a book called a ""ledger,'' or in some comparable system) of transactions relating to a person, an item of property or other asset, a liability, another unpaid obligation, capital, available fund balances, or to elements of revenues, or funds made available, and obligations, cost or expenditures, for a given fiscal period. May also include a summary record of such transactions. 2. A title of such an amount (or a designated group of accounts) for use in budgets and reports. 3. An appropriated fund or other fund, or the title thereof. 4. A summarized presentation of transactions in a financial statement in ledger account form. 5. The rendering of an accounting. 6. A classification of stock balances according to the purpose for which the stocks are held or according to the ownership of stocks.... read full article
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A matter of some type of debt and credit between parties, arising out of a contract, or a fiduciary relationship, or other legal duty.
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An account is a subdivision of a fund and refers to a classification by which information on particular financial transactions and financial resources is recorded and arranged.
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