Meaning of accountant in English

The development of accountants paralleled that of solicitors, though solicitors were usually in the forefront.

Thereafter, with their traditional intake now going to university, solicitors and accountants were increasingly compelled to accept graduates in large numbers.

The social epistemologist's own position as science accountant will then be formally presented in terms of four accountability conditions for critico-instrumental rationality.

This is also true for independent experts recruited among lawyers, accountants and academics.

He was accountant to the overseers and highway surveyors, and clerk to the local friendly society.

This article examines the policies towards graduates of three large professions, those of schoolteachers, solicitors, and accountants.

There is no consistent discourse across different contexts (the laboratory, the accountant's office, the requisitions store), and the same individuals adjust their roles accordingly.

Bureaucrats and accountants were to control theatres and require the art to ape industry and commerce.

If accountants do not believe in financial concepts of value, why should the rest of the population?

Consequently, the role of social accountant is detached from that of political agent.

In contrast, the social epistemologist sides with the "reflexivists" in science studies, that science accountants must situate themselves in the accounts they give.

Nevertheless, the mundane record of how local government was financed has attracted few students, until accountants ventured to fill the gap.

There were also accountants, lawyers, doctors, coal merchants, inn and hotel keepers, grocers and butchers all aged over 65.

Here economic calculation may play a variety of roles, ranging from the influencing of research agendas to the construction of the accountant-scientist.

The memo(s) from the accountant were about the delinquent tax return.

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