Controller vs. Auditor — What's the Difference?

One that controls

An auditor is a person or a firm appointed by a company to execute an audit. To act as an auditor, a person should be certified by the regulatory authority of accounting and auditing or possess certain specified qualifications.

See comptroller.

One that audits accounts.

A mechanism or device that controls something, as in a vehicle or video game.

One who audits a course.

One who controls something.

One who hears; a listener.

(electronics) Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.

One who audits bookkeeping accounts.

(business) The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.

In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.

(computer hardware) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.

One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.

(video games) A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.

(rare) One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.

(nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.

(Scientology) One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

(espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.

A hearer or listener.

(linguistics) The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)

A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.

(software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views.

One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.

One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.

Someone who listens attentively

An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.

A student who attends a course but does not take it for credit

An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.

A qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization

Any electric device for controlling a circuit or system;

A lever controlling the speed of an engine; - applied esp. to the lever governing a throttle valve, as of a steam or gasoline engine, esp. on an automobile.

Someone who maintains and audits business accounts

A person who directs and restrains

A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine;