definition of an account account is a such system which totally belongs to you , account describe a relationship withcostumers bankers friends parents relatives or computer basically account is a source where you can reserve money & other things, from my point of view there are too many types of account some one I'll discuss with u(1) Bank accounts: you know in banks we have a source where we can deposit or with drawl money. bank gives us an account profit and loss or current deposit, in profit and loss accountbank gives you profit also and collect money or tax or zakat in some circumstances and in current account neither collects tax nor gives profit. these account known as bank account we have other electronicaccounts as well as these two like credit card account ,ATM account etc,(2) Email accounts: as you know we have also sources of electronic mail accounts e.g, gmail,yahoo,msn ,hotmailanother kind of diff rent accounts like some buying and selling account through Internet some debit money credit money account from these account you can buy or sell things through Internet and you can contact any person easily through email account you can send receive massages to your friends and other person directly at spot without any further delay but for this you musthave an account we have other accounts type like hire purchase account hire sale some colleges fee account schools accounts salary accounts employee accounts students ,teacher account where every information belongs to related person your servant account and other kind of account