Counting house
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A counting house, or compting house, literally is the building, room, office or suite in which a business firm carries on operations, particularly accounting. By a synecdoche, it has come to mean the accounting operations of a firm, however housed. The term is British in origin and is primarily used in the context of the 19th century or earlier periods.
The term occurs in the well-known English nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence". It also appears in A Christmas Carol and "David Copperfield", by Charles Dickens and Deadeye Dick, by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Counting House also the name given to early businesses which safely stored public and private money and loaned money.
