For Accountability we have terms and definitions in 12 topics. The topics are Educational, Grantmaking, Management, Marketing, Medical Education, Non-Profit Accountability, Non-Profit Governance, Non-Profit Leadership, Police, Political, Supply Chain and Teacher Evaluation.

Accountability (Educational)

Policies that hold districts, schools, or students responsible for their performance. School and district accountability often means rating schools or districts according to student performance, reporting on school or district performance, and rewarding and punishing schools or districts based on improvement over time. Student accountability refers to holding students responsible for their own performance by requiring them to pass a test to be promoted or to graduate.

Accountability (Grantmaking)

The responsibility to justify money spent, decisions made, and activities performed by an individual or an organization. See also:Ethical Behavior, Evaluation Imperative, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), Public Accountability

Accountability (Management)

The answering for one's actions and accepting the consequences.

Accountability (Marketing)

Libraries like private sector businesses are increasingly called upon to make all units accountable for results. Growing funds are needed for technology as opposed to only books. Funders often cut the library budget first, in favor of other agencies such as police and fire or other seemingly, more necessary agencies. Libraries are developing better performance measures within the present day control systems to offer better accountability. (Wood and Koontz)

Accountability (Medical Education)

Responsibility for the decisions and capability to explain to others or the public all undertaken activities to carry out what was obliged to do; to ensure reaching or making progress towards planned objectives or targets.

Accountability (Non-Profit Accountability)

The responsibility to justify money spent, decisions made, and activities performed by an individual or an organization. See also:Ethical Behavior, Evaluation Imperative, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), Public Accountability

Accountability (Non-Profit Governance)

The responsibility to justify money spent, decisions made, and activities performed by an individual or an organization. See also:Ethical Behavior, Evaluation Imperative, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), Public Accountability

Accountability (Non-Profit Leadership)

The responsibility to justify money spent, decisions made, and activities performed by an individual or an organization. See also:Ethical Behavior, Evaluation Imperative, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), Public Accountability

Accountability (Police)

The doctrine by which one is liable for the criminal conduct of another. Example: A agrees to help B rob a store, but only on condition that there be no violence. B assures A that no one will be hurt in the robbery. B nevertheless kills a clerk in the commission of the robbery. Both A and B may be criminally liable for the murder.

Accountability (Political)

The extent to which people are held responsible for their word and actions. For example, an employee is accountable to his boss; a congresspersons to his constituents, and a U.S. president to the people as a whole.

Accountability (Supply Chain)

Being answerable for, but not necessarily personally charged with, doing specific work. Accountability cannot be delegated, but it can be shared. For example, managers and executives are accountable for business performance even though they may not actually perform the work.
Accounts Payable (A/P): The value of goods and services acquired for which payment has not yet been made.

Accountability (Teacher Evaluation)

The responsibility for implementing a process or procedure, for justifying decisions made, and for results or outcomes produced. Teachers are often said to be accountable for their students' learning in the assigned subject area, within the limits of the students' abilities and the time and resources available. See Responsibility.

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