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In general, '''accountability''' is the willingness to be held to agreed-upon standards. To be "held accountable" for one's judgments and actions is the mark of a professional.
Established experts have historically had a tendency to use their mantle of expertise to "define" the truth, resisting efforts by outsiders to compare their notions or theories to reality (see [[History of science]]).
==Financial accountability==
In finance, accountability is the degree to which it is ensured that an organization's [[money|monies]] are collected and disbursed properly, and that an audit trail is kept of all transactions. Under some [[budget]]ing processes and systems, every budgeted [[dollar]] is associated with a responsibility center and a designated manager accountable for the monitoring of expenditures and [[revenues]].
==Christian accountability==
In some Christian groups, a person (usually a man) is encouraged to have an "accountability partner", in order to resist temptations to fall into sin (especially sexual sins such as adultery or pornography).
== See also ==
*[[Transparency]]
* [[Capital]]
* [[Capitalism]]
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