Employer identification number

Employer identification number (also known by its abbreviation EIN) is a number assigned by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that is used by an employer when recording and paying payroll and income taxes.

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Employer identification number (EIN). A number assigned by the IRS that is used by an employer when recording and paying payroll and income taxes.

Accounting (alternatively known as accountancy) is management of financial data, information, and knowledge about financial transactions of legal entities. Accountancy tends to include bookkeeping and, depending on a particilar enterprise, may also include quatitative analysis of financial data in the bookkeeping system and/or business intelligence.