capital account

noun

1. a business account stating the owner's or shareholder's interest in the assets.
2. capital accounts, Accounting. accounts showing the net worth in a business enterprise.

capital account

noun

1. economics that part of a balance of payments composed of movements of capital and international loans and grants Compare current account
2. accounting a financial statement showing the net value of a company at a specified date. It is defined as total assets minus total liabilities and represents ownership interests
3. an account of fixed assets

Word History and Origins

Origin of capital account¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

And our capital account is certainly swelling around that time, as the US runs a persistent, ever-larger trade deficit.

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Macdowell wrote you a capital account of our expedition to Meerun-ke-Serai, which you will get before this reaches you.

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In railway bookkeeping only an arbitrary line can ever be drawn between capital account and operating expenses.

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But if this were so, the money would not be wanted to balance a Budget, but on railway capital account.

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The Countess D'Aulnois gives a capital account of the state of things in this respect in her time (circ 1679).

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The heavy amounts required to provide terminals must also be charged to capital account.

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