Difference between Accountable and Responsible

ACCOUNTABLE vs RESPONSIBLE: ADJECTIVE

Liable to be required to give account, as of one's actions or of the discharge of a duty or trust.
Worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable
Being the agent or cause
Having an acceptable credit rating
Required to render account; answerable.
Involving important duties, the supervision of others, or the ability to make decisions with little supervision.
Being a source or cause.
Able to make moral or rational decisions on one's own and therefore answerable for one's behavior.
Able to be trusted or depended upon; trustworthy or reliable.
Based on or characterized by good judgment or sound thinking.
Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable.
Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise.
Involving responsibility; involving a degree of accountability on the part of the person concerned.
Answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
Capable of responding to any reasonable claim; able to answer reasonably for one's conduct and obligations; capable of rational conduct.
Being a primary cause or agent of some event or action; capable of being credited for something, or of being held liable for something.
Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.

Of which an account can be given; that can be accounted for: in this use opposed to unaccountable.
Liable to be called to account; responsible, as for a trust or obligation; answerable, as for conduct: as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct; a sheriff is accountable as bailiff and receiver of goods.

Correspondent; answering; responsive.
Answerable, as for an act performed or for its consequences, or for a trust reposed or a debt; accountable; specifically, in ethics, in general, having such a mental or moral character as to be capable of knowing and observing the distinction of right from wrong in conduct, and therefore morally accountable for one's acts; in particular (with reference to a certain act), acting or having acted as a free agent, and with knowledge of the ethical character of the act or of its consequences.
Able to answer or respond to any reasonable claim or to what is expected; able to discharge an obligation, or having estate adequate to the payment of a debt.
Involving responsibility.
Or held accountable

Empowering, Transparency, Fault, Irresponsible, Responsive, Beholden, Unaccountable, Transparent, Blame, Responsibility, Liable, Accountability, Amenable, Answerable, Responsible

Committed, Tasked, Blamed, Culpable, Blame, Responsibility, Trusty, Responsible for, Creditworthy, Judicious, Causative, Trustworthy, Answerable, Liable, Accountable

Empower, Transparency, Fault, Irresponsible, Responsive, Beholden, Unaccountable, Transparent, Blame, Responsibility, Liable, Accountability, Amenable, Answerable, Responsible

Involved, Committed, Blamed, Culpable, Blame, Responsibility, Trusty, Responsible for, Creditworthy, Judicious, Causative, Trustworthy, Answerable, Liable, Accountable

As City of Piperton Police Officers, we hold ourselves accountable for our actions, just as we hold others accountable for their actions.
Are managers, supervisors and workers held accountable for safety and health just as they are held accountable for quality?
Real health care reform needs to make health care leaders accountable, and especially accountable for the bad behavior that helped make them rich.
Who is accountable for this training strategically and who is operationally accountable?
In order to be accountable, salespeople need clear and consistent instruction on what they are to be held accountable for.
First of all, it holds schools and their professional staffs accountable for what schools should be accountable for: student learning.
The Accountable Body will provide the accountable department with their assessment of any legal, procurement or State Aid issues when submitting the OBC.
Determining what students or schools should be held accountable for is no less challenging than determining whom to hold accountable.
Accountable Persons Provider will identify who will be accountable to complete the corrective action identified.
In the absence of jurisdiction, everyone is accountable and therefore no one is accountable.

Though he was not fully responsible at the time of the accident, it was his own fault that he was not responsible.
Ideal candidates for this certification exam include those responsible for building and deploying computer systems, and those responsible for the connectivity of systems.
The buyer is responsible for customs clearance, and if he fails to do this, he is responsible for the consequences.
Principles for Responsible Insurance and Principles for Responsible Investment.
RESPONSIBILITY MAKES A DIFFERENCE Becoming a responsible adult begins with becoming a responsible student!
In addition, I make it very clear what I am responsible for and what the venue is responsible for.
Additionally, Data Subjects have the right to sue Responsible Parties and under specific circumstances, the Information Officer of the Responsible Party may be imprisoned.
He is ultimately responsible for unit safety; however; every soldier is responsible for safe training.
Officers are responsible for properly carrying their handguns and equally responsible to maintain control of those handguns.
Is responsible for implementation of new marketing campaigns: software project Manager responsible for the application delivery web.