control account

1. 1.

   an account that shows totals of amounts entered in a subsidiary ledger

   Broaderaccounting

   Part ofgeneral ledger

Questions about control account

What does control account mean?

control account means "an account that shows totals of amounts entered in a subsidiary ledger".

Is control account a common word?

control account is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.