Dictionary of Business Terms: tick marks
tick marks
(accounting) symbols used by auditors to indicate that they have performed a certain operation, such as agreeing a number on a trial balance to the source document or checking the addition of a column of numbers. A legend should appear on the work papers to indicate the meaning of each tick mark.
Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms: tick marks
tick marks
short lines that cross another line to mark the points increments of measurement in a graph.See Figure 267.
