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Letter H: Bookkeeping and Accounting Definitions

Accounting Definitions Starting with the Letter H

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ACCOUNTING DEFINITIONS STARTING WITH THE LETTER H

Habit:

A tendency toward an action or condition, which by repetition has become spontaneous.

Habitual:

Of, pertaining to, or constituting a habit.

Habituate:

To make familiar by repetition or use; accustom.

Head-way:

Forward motion, momentum, progress.

Heed:

To take notice of, pay attention to.

Heir:

Anyone inheriting from a deceased person.

Heir-loom:

Any movable chattel that descends to an heir.

Help:

To give or provide assistance to, aid. To assist in some action, motion, etc..

Historical Cost:

The value of an asset on a firm's books reflecting the price paid for the asset.

Honest:

Fair and candid in dealing with others, true, just, upright, trustworthy. Free from fraud, equitable, fair.

Honesty:

The character or quality of being honest, uprightness of conduct in general, justice, fairness.

Horizontal:

Parallel to the horizon, on a level. Equal and uniform, made up of similar units. A line or plane assumed, for the purpose of measurement or description, to be parallel with the horizon.

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