There's always two sides of a coin

What is an accountant?

ac.count.ant

–noun
a person whose profession is inspecting and auditing accounts.

So what is an account?

ac.count

–noun

1. an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.

2. an explanatory statement of conduct, as to a superior.

3. a statement of reasons, causes, etc., explaining some event.

4. reason; basis: On this account I'm refusing your offer.

5. importance; worth; value; consequence: things of no account.

6. estimation; judgment: In his account it was an excellent piece of work.

7. an amount of money deposited with a bank, as in a checking or savings account: My account is now with Third National.

8. Also called charge account. an accommodation or service extended by a business to a customer or client permitting the charging of goods or services, the returning for credit of unsatisfactory merchandise, etc.: Do you have an account at this store? My account with the restaurant is past due.

9. a statement of financial transactions.

10. Bookkeeping.

a. a formal record of the debits and credits relating to the person, business, etc., named at the head of the ledger account.
b. a balance of a specified period's receipts and expenditures.

11. Commerce.
a. a business relation in which credit is used.
b. any customer or client, esp. one carried on a regular credit basis.
c. Also called advertising account. the business assigned to an advertising agency by a client: The toothpaste account was awarded to a new agency last year.

–verb (used without object)

12. to give an explanation (usually fol. by for): to account for the accident.

13. to answer concerning one's conduct, duties, etc. (usually fol. by for): to account for the missing typewriters.

14. to provide a report on money received, kept, and spent.

15. to cause (usually fol. by for): The humidity accounts for our discomfort. His reckless driving accounted for the accident.
–verb (used with object)

16. to regard; consider as: I account myself well paid.

17. to assign or impute (usually fol. by to): the many virtues accounted to him.

So you see, my main job, as an accountant is to inspect accounts. In other words, I need to inspect oral or written descriptions of a particular event, explanation of someone's conduct or explanation of an event.

Bookkeeping comes only in the tenth place.

So next time, before concluding that I like to gossip around, maybe you would want to have a better understanding of my profession first before making such judgment.

I am merely doing my job.