help me i’m ignorant about this.
what exactly is a ‘Comptroller?’
is it a troller who comps? or what?
comptroller /kŏmp-trō′lər, kŏmp′trō″-, kən-trō′-/
noun
The chief accountant of a company or government.
Someone who maintains and audits business accounts.
A comptroller is responsible for accounting and reporting. In private corporations they’re often called the Chief Audit Executive but are usually independent of other C-Suite executives (CEO, CFO, etc).
“comptroller (n.)
c. 1500, a variant of controller, with bad spelling due to influence of unrelated French compte “an account,” from Latin computare.
also from c. 1500
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controller (n.)
late 14c., “official in charge of accounts in a king’s household,” from Anglo-French contrerolleour (late 13c.), Old French contrerelleor (Modern French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrarotulator, agent noun from *contra-rotulare (see control (v.)).
Broader sense of “officer who examines accounts and manages finances of a corporation or institution” is from c. 1400. The first syllable was confused with count (v.), Latin comptus (hence comptroller). Mechanical sense “that which governs or restrains” is from 1867.”