comptes d'ordre divers

English translation: sundry accounts

13:07 Nov 12, 2023

French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general)

French term or phrase: comptes d'ordre divers

This appears as standalone text on a bank statement for an organisation from Cote d'Ivoire. The text is actually "COMPTES ORD DIVERS", but I think it's an abbreviation for "comptes d'ordre divers".

A "compte d'ordre" seems to be a suspense account in English, but I'm not sure about the whole phrase.

Heather Langdale KudoZ activity Questions: 4 (2 open) Answers: 2 United Kingdom
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English translation:sundry accounts

Explanation:
I think it's more likely to be "d'ordre divers" than "comptes d'ordre", especially since this is a bank statement, not a set of accounts.

Lots of examples here:
https://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/d'ordre d...

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Note added at 16 mins (2023-11-12 13:23:46 GMT)
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I'm now going to undermine my own answer by suggesting that it could mean "ordinaires".

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philgoddard
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sundry accounts

philgoddard

sundry suspense accounts; miscellaneous accounts

Adrian MM.

Accounts for sundry orders

Francois Boye

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sundry accounts

philgoddard
United States
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 253

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Accounts for sundry orders

Explanation:
The orders in this case relate to a bank accounts, and not to any acciunts

Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 14:17
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French
PRO pts in category: 305

2 hrs confidence:

sundry suspense accounts; miscellaneous accounts

Explanation:
> miscellaneous suspense accounts would be a tautology: 'miscellaneous accounts are suspense accounts. A suspense account is an account that should be used to temporarily record items that are unidentified or cannot be recorded to the accounts yet.'

'A sundry suspense account is a type of bank account that is used to temporarily hold funds that cannot be immediately identified or allocated to a specific account.'

Perchance we ought to be worried about the (unforgivable) oblivion of the term of 'suspense account'.

Example sentence(s):

iate: fr compte d'attente COM compte d'ordre COM en suspense account
suspense account: suspense account; plural noun: suspense accounts an account in the books of an organization in which items are entered temporarily before allocation to the correct or final account.

Reference: http://proz.com/personal-glossaries/entry/13567624-compte-do...
Reference: http://iate.europa.eu/search/result/1699804600981/1

Adrian MM.
Austria
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Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 81

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