accountancy vs payroll

accountancy

noun
  • A company or organisation that performs such a function. 

  • The function of compiling and providing financial information primarily by reports referred to as financial statements, including bookkeeping, systems design, analysis and interpretation of accounting information. 

payroll

noun
  • The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this. 

  • Bribes paid to people. 

  • A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each. 

  • The total sum of money paid to employees. 

verb
  • To place on a payroll. 

How often have the words accountancy and payroll occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )