accountancy vs proceeding

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. 

proceeding

noun
  • A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction 

  • An event or happening; something that happens 

  • A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society. 

  • The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction 

  • Progress or movement from one thing to another. 

  • Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit. 

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