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# accounting — English to French

How English *accounting* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: accounting (57 690), accountings (9). By style: everyday 13 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 1 255 · legal and administrative 12 884 · UN documents 43 543.

## comptables

Used about 27 548 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 706 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 095 · UN documents ≈ 17 740). Forms: comptable, comptables, comptes.

- The audit revealed several **accounting** irregularities.
  L’audit a révélé plusieurs irrégularités **comptables**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13406223](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406223) [\#13406222](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406222))

- International **accounting** standards (debate)
  Normes **comptables** internationales (débat)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 990209)

- Legal and **accounting** services
  Services juridiques et **comptables**
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5246264)

- **Accounting** journals and adjustments
  Journaux et ajustements **comptables**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 21223063)

- Yanni needs to produce **accounting** statements for his business operations in Algeria.
  Yanni doit présenter des états **comptables** pour ses commerces en Algérie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10090085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10090085) [\#11958397](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958397))

## comptabilité

Used about 10 727 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 340 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 516 · UN documents ≈ 8 870).

- On the left is reception, and to the right is **accounting**.
  À gauche, c'est l'accueil, à droite, c'est la **comptabilité**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tsp\_2 and rat · checked, community translation · [\#9987989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9987989) [\#9787635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9787635))

- Part of this is, of course, good **accounting**.
  Une bonne **comptabilité** en est bien sûr un des éléments.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 561563)

- **Accounting**, Bookkeeping and Taxation: Legislative Decree 139/2005, Law 248/2006
  **Comptabilité**, tenue de livre et fiscalité: Décret législatif 139/2005, loi 248/2006
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 260873)

- (b) London Group on Environmental **Accounting**
  b) Groupe de Londres sur la **comptabilité**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 10684956)

- **Accounting** is a technical and perhaps even esoteric issue.
  La **comptabilité** est un sujet technique et peut-être même ésotérique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 188490)

## système

Used about 253 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 253).

- In particular, the cost **accounting** system of the notified operator should be capable of differentiating between direct costs \[8\], and indirect costs \[9\].
  Le **système** de comptabilisation des coûts de l’opérateur notifié doit notamment permettre de différencier les coûts directs \[8\] et les coûts indirects \[9\].
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 598196)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- There's no **accounting** for taste.
  Les goûts, ça ne discute pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zipangu and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#349461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/349461) [\#1989042](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1989042))

- There is no **accounting** for tastes.
  Les goûts ça ne s'explique pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#40811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/40811) [\#330295](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/330295))

- There's no **accounting** for taste.
  Les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zipangu and AmarMecheri · checked, community translation · [\#349461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/349461) [\#7169807](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7169807))

## Grammar

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