preaccounting

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ accounting.

Adjective

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.