Accountant vs. Bursar

One who renders account; one accountable.

A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).

(accounting) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.

(accounting) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.

(obsolete) Accountable.

One who renders account; one accountable.

A reckoner.

One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.

Accountable.

someone who maintains and audits business accounts

An accountant is a practitioner of accounting or accountancy. Accountants who have demonstrated competency through their professional associations' certification exams are certified to use titles such as Chartered Accountant, Chartered Certified Accountant or Certified Public Accountant, or Registered Public Accountant.

The treasurer of a university, college or school.

A student funded by a bursary.

A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.

the treasurer at a college or university

A bursar (derived from , Latin for purse) is a professional financial administrator in a school or university. In the United States, bursars usually exist only at the level of higher education (four-year colleges and universities) or at private secondary schools.

Example: ‘bursa’;