This glossary defines accounting terminology used in bookkeeping, financial reporting, audit, tax, and internal control documentation.
Coverage includes core accounting concepts, chart-of-accounts language, financial statement items, audit and assurance terms, tax and payroll vocabulary, closing processes, controls, and common reporting metrics.
For accountants, auditors, bookkeepers, controllers, finance staff, students, and readers interpreting accounting reports and workpapers.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Job order costing | Accounting term: Job order costing. |
| Joint control | Accounting term: Joint control. |
| Journal Entry manipulation | Accounting term: Journal Entry manipulation. |
| Journal entry | Accounting term: Journal entry. |
| Journal workflow | Accounting system or module concept: Journal workflow. |