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Etymology edit

pre- +‎ accounting

Adjective edit

preaccounting (not comparable)

  1. Prior to accounting.
    • 2011, Vincent Antonin Lépinay, Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank, page 200:
      A preaccounting unit overseeing the smooth connection between accounting and the front office was created within the complex derivative back office. [] What was carefully checked during the consultation period was the way in which what was paid out and received was communicated to the accounting department.