| [= notes and coins] | money |
| [= an institution that accepts financial instruments and agrees to honour them should the borrower | acceptance house |
| [= a structured record of transactions] | account |
| [= the practice of accounting] | accountancy |
| [= a professional person who maintains and checks business records] | accountant |
| [= the cost of maintaining and checking business records] | accounting cost |
| [= the regular process of formally updating a firm's financial position] | accounting cycle |
| [= a number assigned to a particular account] | accounting code |
| [= a transaction recorded in a particular book of account] | accounting event |
| [= payments paid to an accountant for preparing accounts] | accounting fees |
| [= the condition that a company is in when its liabilities exceed its assets] | accounting insolvency |
| [= a collection of accounting instructions] | accounting manual |
| [= a unit in a company that deals with accounts] | accounting department |
| [= the amount that a company owes for goods or services obtained on credit] | accounts payable |
| [= the money that is owed to a company for goods or services provided] | accounts receivable |
| [= money that has been earned but not yet received] | accrued income |
| [= money which is recorded although payment has not yet been made] | accrued liabilities |
| [= the amount of money, less depreciation, that it would cost to replace something damaged] | actual cash value |
| [= the number of times during a particular period that somebody spends the average amount of money] | actual turnover |
| [= a statistician who calculates probable lifespans so that insurance premiums could be accurately d | actuary |
| [= the value of a company in terms of the current market values] | adjusted book value |
| [= an amount paid before it is earned] | advanced payment |
| [= a debt that is overdue by one or more given periods] | aged debt |
| [= the total of all incomes in an economy without adjustments for inflation or taxation] | aggregate income |
| [= the total of all goods and services produced in an economy] | aggregate-supply |
| [= companies which are based in one country but registered in another] | alien corporation |
| [= the process of two or more organisations joining together] | amalgamation |
| [= to reduce the value of an asset gradually by writing off its cost] | amortise |
| [= an individual or a group willing to invest in an unproven but well-researched e-business idea] | angel investor |
| [= a management fee paid yearly] | annual charge |
| [= documents prepared each year to give a true and fair view of a company's state of affairs] | annual report |
| [= the increase in value of certain assets over time] | appreciation |
| [= financial reports that have been accepted by the company's board of directors] | approved account |
| [= the buying and selling of foreign currencies or products between two or more markets in order to | arbitrage |
| [= economic forecasting or theorising based on insufficient data] | armchair economics |
| [= any tangible or intangible item to which a value can be assigned] | asset |
| [= an investment strategy that distributes investments in a portfolio so as to achieve the highest | asset allocation |
| [= the purchase or sale of assets] | asset restructuring |
| [= a company that acquires another company and sells its assets to make a profit] | asset stripper |
| [= a company which is partly owned by another company] | associate company |
| [= an electronic machine from which bank customers can withdraw paper money] | ATM |
| [= a company's board of directors that monitors the company's finances] | audit committee |
| [= the percentage return realised on an asset] | average accounting return |
| [= the average of what a company is paying for the money it borrows] | average cost of capital |
| [= one of the regional phone companies that was established after the demise of AT&T in 1984] | Baby Bell |
| [= a debt which is considered to be uncollectable] | bad debt |
| [= money that a company sets aside to cover bad debts] | bad debt reserve |
| [= negative goodwill] | bad will |
| [= the state of an account] | balance |
| [= a list of a country's credit and debit transactions] | balance of payments |