Accounting vs. Finance — What's the Difference?

Accounting or accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. Accounting, which has been called the "language of business", measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of users, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators.

Finance is a term for matters regarding the management, creation, and study of money and investments. Specifically, it deals with the questions of how an individual, company or government acquires money – called capital in the context of a business – and how they spend or invest that money.

The practice or profession of maintaining the financial records of a business, including bookkeeping as well as the preparation of statements concerning the assets, liabilities, and operating results.

The management of money, banking, investments, and credit.

Present participle of account

Finances Monetary resources

(business) The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business.

The supplying of funds or capital.

A relaying of events; justification of actions.

To provide or raise the funds or capital for

(law) An equitable remedy requiring wrongfully obtained profits to be distributed to those who deserve them.

To supply funds to

A convincing explanation that reveals basic causes;

The management of money and other assets.

A system that provides quantitative information about finances

The science of management of money and other assets.

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

Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.

A bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts

The provision of a loan, payment instalment terms, or similar arrangement, to enable a customer to purchase an item without paying the full amount straight away.

A statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance;

(intransitive) To conduct, or procure money for, financial operations; manage finances.

To pay ransom.

(transitive) To manage financially; be financier for; provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking.

To extort ransom from.

The income of a ruler or of a state; revenue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources.

The science of raising and expending the public revenue.

To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the capital for; to financier.

The commercial activity of providing funds and capital

The branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets

The management of money and credit and banking and investments

Obtain or provide money for;

Sell or provide on credit