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Accountant or Accomptant, one whose business it is to compute, adjust, and range in due order accounts; also to audit accounts. The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales was incorporated by Royal Charter, May 11th, 1880. No person is entitled to describe himself as a chartered accountant unless he is a member of an Institute of Accountants incorporated in the United Kingdom by Royal Charter; see Society of Accountants in Edinburgh v. Corporation of Accountants Ltd. (1893) 20 R 750; Society of Accountants and Auditors v. Goodway, (1907) 1 Ch 489.