overfoot

English

Etymology

over- +‎ foot

Verb

overfoot (third-person singular simple present overfoots, present participle overfooting, simple past and past participle overfooted)

1. (accounting) To assign a column summary that is greater than the sum of all the entries in that column.

   Antonym: underfoot

   • 1932, Frank Hatch Streightoff, Advanced Accounting, page 140:

     Another device is to underfoot the accounts receivable column and the net cash column in the record of cash receipts and to underfoot the debit or overfoot the credit side of one or more accounts in the customer's ledger by equal amounts.

   • 1980, The CPA Journal - Volume 50:

     Stay away from the client or taxpayer who conceals, pads, overstates or understates, alters, duplicates, overfoots or underfoots, diverts, manipulates, omits, falsifies and flagrantly disregards the IRS regulations.

   • 1983, Accounting and information systems: instructor's manual, →ISBN, page 258:

     In manually balancing the cash receipts journal prior to posting to the ledgers, it is quite possible to underfoot or overfoot columns deliberately in order to manipulate the account records to cover cash shortages.