ACCOUNT, or ACCOMPT, in a general sense, a computation or reckoning of any thing by numbers.—Collectively, it is used to express the books which merchants, traders, bankers, &c. use for recording their transactions in business. See BOOK-KEEPING.
Chamber of Accounts, in the French polity, is a sovereign court of great antiquity, which takes cognizance of and registers the accounts of the king's revenue. It is nearly the same with the English Court of Exchequer.