English > comptroller: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who maintains and audits business accounts. |
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| Synonyms | accountant, controller |
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| Narrower | auditor | A qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records / records and practices of a business or other organization |
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| bean counter | An accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures |
| bookkeeper | someone who records the transactions of a business |
| certified public accountant, CPA | An accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state |
| chartered accountant | A British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter |
| cost accountant | A specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production |
| Broader | businessperson, bourgeois | A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise |
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| Spanish | contable, contadora, contador, controlador, economista |
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| Catalan | comptable, comptador, controlador, economista |
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| Nouns | comptrollership | the position of comptroller |
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