Nov 12, 2023 13:07
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French term

comptes d'ordre divers

FVA French to English Bus/Financial Finance (general)
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.

Discussion

Bourth Nov 12, 2023:

Proposed translations

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sundry accounts

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".
Peer comment(s):

neutral Francois Boye : You did not translate 'ordre'
1 hr
agree Bourth : I too see it as d'ordres divers, 'of different types' or (for François) 'sundry'.'
2 hrs
Thanks.
agree SafeTex
4 hrs
agree AllegroTrans
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1 hr

Accounts for sundry orders

The orders in this case relate to a bank accounts, and not to any acciunts
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2 hrs

sundry suspense accounts; miscellaneous accounts

> 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:

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.

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