Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ADJUNCT ACCOUNT
  
  an account that accumulates either additions or subtractions to another account. Thus the original account may retain its identity. Examples include premiums on bonds payable, which is a contra account to bonds payable; and accumulated depreciation, which is an offset to the fixed asset.
  
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