Report vs. Account — What's the Difference?

A report is a document that presents information in an organized format for a specific audience and purpose. Although summaries of reports may be delivered orally, complete reports are almost always in the form of written documents.

A narrative or record of events.

A formal account of the proceedings or transactions of a group

A reason given for a particular action or event

A spoken or written account of an event, usually presented in detail

A report relating to one's conduct

A person who is accountable or subordinate to another person within a company or organization

A basis or ground

Reports(Law) Bound volumes containing the published court opinions in legal cases, intended to provide a reference for precedents in subsequent cases.

A formal banking, brokerage, or business relationship established to provide for regular services, dealings, and other financial transactions.

Reputation; repute

A precise list or enumeration of financial transactions.

(Archaic) Common talk; rumor or gossip.

A sum of money deposited for checking, savings, or brokerage use.

An explosive noise

A customer having a business or credit relationship with a firm

To make or present an official or formal account of

A private access to a computer system or online service, usually requiring a password to enter.

To write or provide an account or summation of for publication or broadcast

Worth, standing, or importance

To tell about the presence or occurrence of

Profit or advantage

To relate or tell, especially from personal experience

To consider as being; deem. See Usage Note at as1.

To submit or relate the results of considerations concerning

(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.

To carry back and repeat to another

(banking) A bank account.

To complain about or denounce

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

To make a report

A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.

To serve as a reporter for a publication, broadcasting company, or other news media.

A record of events; a relation or narrative.

To present oneself

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

To be accountable or subordinate to someone

Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

(transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).

Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.

To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.

(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.

(uncountable) Profit; advantage.

(transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).

To provide explanation.

(intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.

To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.

(ambitransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.

To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.

(intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).

(transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).

To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.

(intransitive) To consider that.

To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.

(obsolete) To refer.

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.

To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.

A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).

(intransitive) To establish the location for someone.

Reputation.

(intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).

(firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.

To count.

An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.

To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).

To refer.

(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.

To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress.

(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).

To give an account of; to relate; to tell; to circulate publicly, as a story; as, in the common phrase, it is reported.

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

To give an official account or statement of; as, a treasurer reports the receipts and expenditures.

A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.

A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.

To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker.

A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.

To write an account of for publication, as in a newspaper; as, to report a public celebration or a horse race.

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

To make a statement of the conduct of, especially in an unfavorable sense; as, to report a servant to his employer.

Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.

To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.

To reckon; to compute; to count.

To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication.

To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; - with to.

To present one's self, as to a superior officer, or to one to whom service is due, and to be in readiness for orders or to do service; also, to give information, as of one's address, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for duty; to report weekly by letter.

To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.

That which is reported.

To recount; to relate.

Sound; noise; as, the report of a pistol or cannon.

To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

Rapport; relation; connection; reference.

To render an account; to answer in judgment; - with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

A written document describing the findings of some individual or group;

To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; - with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

A short account of the news;

A formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services;

The act of informing by verbal report;

The act of informing by verbal report;

A sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing);

A record or narrative description of past events;

A written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment;

A short account of the news;

An essay (especially one written as an assignment);

A statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance;

The general estimation that the public has for a person;

A statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.;

To give an account or representation of in words;

An itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered;

Announce as the result of an investigation, or announce something to the proper authorities;

Grounds;

Announce one's presence;

Importance or value;

Make known to the authorities;

The quality of taking advantage;

Be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism;

Be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something;

Complain about; make a charge against;

Keep an account of

To give an account or representation of in words;

Furnish a justifying analysis or explanation;