noun

• (business) The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business.
  "British Railways are beginning to reap the advantages of electronics applied to accounting. At Swindon Works, a computor, the first of its type to be used anywhere in the world, was installed recently to deal with the pay of some 10,000 employees."
• (law) An equitable remedy requiring wrongfully obtained profits to be distributed to those who deserve them.
  "In contrast, an accounting for profits, or accounting— a distinct form of relief that the majority groups with disgorgement — has a well-accepted definition: It compels a defendant to account for, and repay to a plaintiff, those profits that belong to the plaintiff in equity."