plano oficial de contas - general

English translation: an interesting question

14:46 Oct 19, 2000

Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
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Portuguese term or phrase: plano oficial de contas - general

Colleagues who translate a lot of 'Relatorios e Contas' will be familiar with the long standard list of headings - taken from the Plano Oficial de Contas - beginning 'Imobilizacoes incorporeas' and ending ' Resultado liquido do exercicio', which seem to be standard for every company.

My question is this: does anyone know if an official translation of these accountancy headings into English has ever been made?

The terms themselves don't cause me many problems, but I often wonder if there isn't an officially approved version.

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English translation:an interesting question

Explanation:
See the web ref below, which indicates where to obtain Portuguese-English translation of terms (translation doesn't in fact appear on the page itself).

Look further in google under 'plano oficial contas English', where you may be able to obtain further references.

Finally, I base such translations on a parallel set of accounts for a large Spanish company (one Spanish and the other English); these were translated by a prestigious accountancy company (Price Waterhouse), whom it can be supposed is up-to-date on these matters and applies professional standards.

Hope this info helps.

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Lia Fail (X)
Spain
Local time: 03:49

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Heaps of thanks, Ailish. I looked at the site and though, as you say, the relevant pages aren't accessible from there, it might be worth buying the book.
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official chart of accounts

Danilo Nogueira (X)

an interesting question

Lia Fail (X)

Official Accounting Plan.

Luis Luis

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official chart of accounts

Explanation:
"plano de contas" is "chart of accounts"

Danilo Nogueira (X)
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an interesting question

Lia Fail (X)
Spain
Local time: 03:49
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English
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Grading comment

Heaps of thanks, Ailish. I looked at the site and though, as you say, the relevant pages aren't accessible from there, it might be worth buying the book.

5 hrs

Official Accounting Plan.

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Regards.
Luis Luis

Luis Luis
United States
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