What do you mean by accountability?

What is the first thing that pops in your head when you hear the word accountability, for me accountability is let me put in this way we each hav our responsibilities to bear and fulfill and accountability is basically ensuring that responsibilities are performed at the appropriate time.

Accountability is a measure used by many organisations and institutions to keep a check on peoples actions and their duty of performing their mandatory responsibilities.

Every person is accountable to himself, family, working organization and finally god himself and if this is failed to be perfomed it leads to unprecedented consequences.