Accounting terminology
The accounting profession comes with its share of unique linguistic challenges. Two useful information sources are available here to answer your terminology related questions.
Terminologie comptable
Terminologie comptable is a database that contains the bulletins published by the French Terminology Committee of the Ordre des comptables agréés du Québec.
The Committee must contribute to the development and dissemination, in the fields of practice of Ordre members, of French terminology that will be practical and correct, both linguistically and technically.
The bulletins published by the Committee are effective tools to communicate decision-making information which, in addition to being technically accurate, needs to be as clearly expressed as possible.
Dictionary of Derivatives and Other Financial Instruments
The Dictionary of Derivatives and Other Financial Instruments, available at no charge, provides investors, financial industry professionals, translators and other interested parties from government, the media and educational sectors with an authoritative bilingual reference covering concepts that may at times be complex and bewildering. This on-line tool is an innovative initiative in the French-speaking world and represents a major step forward in the fields of terminology and investor education.
The Dictionary contains over 700 definitions that can be accessed in English and French simultaneously. In addition to featuring synonyms and complementary concepts, it gives comparisons between different concepts and terms. The Dictionary thus enables users to compare definitions of forward-based derivatives and option-based derivatives, and to grasp the distinctions between numerous types of options.
