The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants ( AICPA ) defines accountancy as " the art of recording, classifying, and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of financial character, and interpreting the results thereof.

" In terms of her moral character, Abraham Kuyper argues that Abigail's conduct indicates " a most appealing character and unwavering faith ," but Alice Bach regards her as subversive.

Other terms such as character set, character map, and code page are used almost interchangeably, but these terms have related but distinct meanings described below.

Rújiào and Kǒngjiào contain the Chinese character jiào, the noun " teach ", used in such as terms as " education ", or " educator ".

In terms of content, enforcement of the Production Code ensured that no film character could literally get away with murder or be seen sharing a bed with anyone but a spouse ; within those bounds, however, many films now identified as noir feature plot elements and dialogue that were very risqué for the time.

In Act II, Scene III of Henry V, his death is described by the character " Hostess ", possibly the Mistress Quickly of Henry IV, who describes his body in terms that parody Plato's description of the death of Socrates.

Others terms used to identify Chinese characters include Sinogram, emphasizing the Chinese origin of the characters, and Han character, a literal translation of the native term.

The Eighth Council of Toledo ( 653 ) recorded its admiration of his character in these glowing terms: " The extraordinary doctor, the latest ornament of the Catholic Church, the most learned man of the latter ages, always to be named with reverence, Isidore ".

In order to understand the metaphysics of the Mage setting, it is important to remember that many of the terms used to describe magic and Magi e. g., Avatar, Quintessence, the Umbra, and Paradox, Resonance, as well as the game mechanics a player uses to describe the areas of magic in which his character is proficient — the Spheres, look, mean, and are understood very differently depending on the paradigm of the Mage in question, even though they are often, in the texts of the game, described from particular paradigmatic points-of-view.

As the West lost its Slavic character, those two terms were more often used in the East.

The Cartan-derivative of the field form ( i. e. essentially the divergence of the field ) would be zero in the absence of the " gluon terms ", i. e. those ~ g, which represent the non-abelian character of the SU ( 3 ).

Similar terms which are more specific are character, letter or grapheme

Here, the Chinese character 至 means " extreme ", so the terms for the solstices directly signify the summits of summer and winter.

The " all-new, all-different X-Men " were led by Cyclops from the original team and consisted of the newly created Colossus ( from the Soviet Union ), Nightcrawler ( from West Germany ), Storm ( from Kenya ), and Thunderbird ( a Native American from the Apache nation ), along with three previously introduced characters, Banshee ( from Ireland ), Sunfire ( from Japan ), and Wolverine ( from Canada ), who eventually became the breakout character on the team and, in terms of comic sales and appearances, the most popular X-Men character.

In the Brookings Institution report Dealing with Neighbourhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices ( 2001 ), Maureen Kennedy and Paul Leonard say that " the term ' gentrification ' is both imprecise and quite politically charged ", suggesting its redefinition as " the process by which higher income households displace lower income residents of a neighbourhood, changing the essential character and flavour of that neighbourhood ", so distinguishing it from the different socio-economic process of " neighbourhood ( or urban ) revitalization ", although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.

The book has been the source of various terms that are used in the BDSM subculture such as Samois, the name of the estate belonging to the character Anne-Marie, who brands O.

At the beginning of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, the fictional character Rhett Butler warns a group of upper-class secessionists of the folly of war with the North in terms very reminiscent of those Sherman directed to David F. Boyd before leaving Louisiana.

On-line character recognition is also referred to by other terms such as dynamic character recognition, real-time character recognition, and Intelligent Character Recognition or ICR.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

The purchasers rejected the order in two letters written in vigorous terms.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

All but two of my nine terms in the House of Representatives has been served under the Speakership of Sam Rayburn.

Present pool quarters at two locations in Providence are crowded, antiquated and, in general, make for inefficient operation in terms of dispersement of personnel and duplication of such operational needs as stock and repair equipment.

The terms and conditions of the loan and other provisions will be set forth in a separate agreement by the two Governments.

The word `` binomial '' means `` of two names '' or `` of two terms '', and both usages apply in our work: the first to the names of the two outcomes of a binomial trial, and the second to the terms P and Af that represent the probabilities of `` success '' and `` failure ''.

But first, we must define two terms so that their meaning will be clearly understood: form -- any unique sequence of alphabetic characters that can appear in a language preceded and followed by a space ; ;

To do this, it is sufficient to point out that if the principle in terms of which alternatives are to be conceived is such as to exclude more than two, then the question of a `` third '' possibility is a meaningless question.

In terms of war strategy, Lincoln articulated two priorities: to ensure that Washington was well-defended, and to conduct an aggressive war effort that would satisfy the demand in the North for prompt, decisive victory ; major Northern newspaper editors expected victory within 90 days.

Rather than a definition in terms of the force between two current-carrying wires, it has been proposed to define the ampere in terms of the rate of flow of elementary charges.

The sultan proposed terms of peace, which were rejected by the emperor, and the two forces met in the Battle of Manzikert.

Indeed most Arminians reject all accusations of Pelagianism ; nonetheless, primarily due to Calvinist opponents, the two terms remain intertwined in popular usage.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

He was elected as Governor of Tennessee for two terms ; all these offices were gained as a member of the Democratic Party.

His quarrel with Congress prevented the readmission into the Union on generous terms of the members of the late Confederacy .... He sacrificed two important objects to petty considerations.

Differences between the two include pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary ( lexis ), spelling, punctuation, idioms, formatting of dates and numbers, although the differences in written and most spoken grammar structure tend to be much less than those of other aspects of the language in terms of mutual intelligibility.

A member who accepts a service position or an organizing role is a " trusted servant " with terms rotating and limited, typically lasting three months to two years and determined by group vote and the nature of the position.

Council members are elected to four-year terms, staggered every two years.

Slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts by the terms of the constitution of 1780, which declared `` all men are born free and equal ''.

One of the terms of the surrender was that Guthrum convert to Christianity ; and three weeks later the Danish king and 29 of his chief men were baptised at Alfred's court at Aller, near Athelney, with Alfred receiving Guthrum as his spiritual son.

With 20, 000 men ( including a rate of feminization of nearly 10 %) the Army remains the most important component in terms of numbers.

Chiang often resolved issues of warlord obstinacy through military action, but such action was costly in terms of men and materiel.

Chinese astronomers, many of them brilliant men by any standards, continued to think in flat-earth terms until the seventeenth century ; this surprising fact might be the starting-point for a re-examination of the apparent facility with which the idea of a spherical earth found acceptance in fifth-century B. C.

While the French settlers debated how new revolutionary laws would apply to Saint-Domingue, outright civil war broke out in 1790 when the free men of color claimed they too were French citizens under the terms of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

When elections were finally organized, this time under terms of universal suffrage ( both men and women now had the vote ), Duvalier, a black, painted himself as the legitimate heir to Estimé.

Caesar does not explicitly name the tribal authorities prosecuting the case and gathering men to apprehend Orgetorix, but refers to them by the Latin terms civitas (" state " or " tribe ") and magistratus (" officials ").

In terms of numbers, the operations of the impi would change-from the Western equivalent of small company and battalion size forces, to maneuvers in multi-divisional strength of between 10, 000 and 40, 000 men.

Madison's Cabinet, that included men of mediocre talent, was chosen in terms of national interest and political harmony.

On the other side, I was sorry to find most of the Parliament men as stiff, in requiring an absolute submission to their authority as if no differences had happened among us, nor the privileges of Parliament ever been violated, peremptorily insisting upon the entire subjection of the army, and refusing to hearken to any terms of accommodation, though the necessity of affairs seemed to demand it, if we would preserve our cause from ruin.

" Another variant model is the one alleging that certain men think in terms of a virgin / whore dichotomy, in which women who do not adhere to an Abrahamic standard of moral purity are considered " whores ".

Although most historians have dismissed the terms of the Indenture as being highly ambitious and fanciful, R. R. Davies noted that certain internal features underscore the rootedness of Glyndŵr's political philosophy in Welsh mythology: in it, the three men invoke prophecy, and the boundaries of Wales are defined according to Merlinic literature.

Evelyn Hooker in 1957 published “ The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual ”, which found that " homosexuals were not inherently abnormal and that there was no difference between homosexual and heterosexual men in terms of pathology.

From Saladin's own point of view, in terms of territory, the war against Mosul was going well, but he still failed to achieve his objectives and his army was shrinking ; Taqi al-Din took his men back to Hama, while Nasir al-Din Muhammad and his forces had left.

Both men wanted Russia to leave the western European states far behind in terms of development.

What Humboldt terms the inner form of a language is just that mode of denoting the relations between the parts of a sentence which reflects the manner in which a particular body of men regards the world about them.

* February 27 – Atlanta murders of 1979-1981: Wayne Williams is convicted of murdering two adult men and is sentenced to two consecutive life terms.

Aristotle's term logic had been concerned with the interrelations of terms such as " Socrates " or " man " (" all men are mortal, Socrates is a man, so Socrates is mortal ").

Under the terms of the surrender, Cos and his men would leave Texas and no longer fight against the Constitution of 1824.

It has been noted that while the number of women in ski jumping is not insignificant, the field has a much wider spread in terms of talent, in that the top men are all of a similar level of strength competitively, while the women are more varied, even in the top tiers.

As part of the terms of this treaty, a coalition of Native Americans and Frontiers men, known as the Western Confederacy, turned over to the United States large parts of modern-day Ohio, and various other parcels of land including centered at the mouth of the Chicago River.

As part of the terms of this treaty, a coalition of Native Americans and Frontiers men, known as the Western Confederacy, turned over to the United States large parts of modern-day Ohio, and various other parcels of land including six square miles centered at the mouth of the Chicago River.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo summarizes Block's theory well: " marriage affects men and women very differently in terms of their future earning abilities, and is therefore an important cause of the male / female wage gap ".

The government in Washington, D. C., refused to approve Sherman's terms and the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, denounced Sherman publicly, precipitating a long-lasting feud between the two men.