An account is a locking calculation. Circumstances, which are to be accounted for, should be in its entirety settled thereafter for all involved ones.

Colloquially the account in many affairs of the daily life was established. Frequently the account is used also as synonym for the accounting. Here one accounts for, as a demand or a calculation is compared with a counterclaim; the sum of all demand decreased by the sum of all counterclaims result in the requirement. Settled with this account all (charged) demands consulted void, it are considered as.

Regular accounts

A special form of the account is the pay slip. Here by the work from occupation, carried out in the calendar month, the being entitled wages are determined. Similarly to it regularly a salary statement for employee takes place, from whom the remuneration becomes evident. In both cases the person employed acquires a legal claim on account by his achievement.

Further regular use is sometimes authorized in numerous sources of supply and handels, where the supplier accounts for his achievements weekly or monthly opposite the customer, to draw in itself resulting in demands directly.

Colloquial use

In the transferred sense the term account use finds, e.g. in the idiom "“I expects still you"” if a party by another sees themselves overreached off and suggest would like to work for his part on reconciliation of the advantage.

If a person provides by force - thus usually law-adversely - or with the help of others a reconciliation, then that is likewise called account. This form of the account appears particularly as revenge, a freiwillige compensation from own motivation not account is called.

See also

• Hamburg account

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