Accountancy vs. Commerce

Accountancynoun

The function of compiling and providing financial information primarily by reports referred to as financial statements. Accounting includes bookkeeping, systems design, analysis and interpretation of accounting information.

Commercenoun

(business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

Accountancynoun

A company or organisation that performs such a function.

Commercenoun

Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

Accountancynoun

The art or employment of an accountant.

Commercenoun

(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

Accountancynoun

the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business

Commercenoun

A 19th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

Commerceverb

To carry on trade; to traffic.

Commerceverb

To hold intercourse; to commune.

Commercenoun

The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

‘The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men.’;

Commercenoun

Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

‘Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.’;

Commercenoun

Sexual intercourse.

Commercenoun

A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

Commerceverb

To carry on trade; to traffic.

‘Beware you commerce not with bankrupts.’;

Commerceverb

To hold intercourse; to commune.

‘Commercing with himself.’; ‘Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.’;

Commercenoun

transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

Commercenoun

the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913

Commercenoun

social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.

Commerce

Commerce is the exchange of goods and services, especially on a large scale.