An accountant has several roles and responsibilities to meet in their job, both in terms of their competence at carrying out accounting practices as well as their ethics and approach to the job.ccountancy is one of the most detailed and diverse roles in the finance industry and as such accountants are required to be competent in a number of areas. The role of an accountant might include the following: 1  Prepare profit and loss statements on behalf of a business.
Categorical. A categorical variable (sometimes called a nominal variable) is one that has two or more categories, but there is no intrinsic ordering to the categories. For example, gender is a categorical variable having two categories (male and female) and there is no intrinsic ordering to the categories.
Discrete data take particular values, while continuous data are not restricted to separate values. Discrete data are distinct and there is no grey area in between, while continuous data occupy any value over a continuous data value.iscrete data can be numeric -- like numbers of apples -- but it can also be categorical -- like red or blue, or male or female, or good or bad. Continuous data are not restricted to defined separate values, but can occupy any value over a continuous range.