What is the difference between accounting and finance?

What will be an ideal response?

Answers will vary, but the main point is backward- versus forward-looking activity; additional descriptors are listed below to help assess various answers:
Accounting - backward-looking activity; looking at actual transactions after they have already taken place; constitutes the assessment portion of the financing cycles; documents prepared as part of that activity are frequently reported outside the business

Budgeting - forward-looking activity; deciding what is expected to take place in the future based on the organization's strategy and goals; constitutes the planning portion of the financing cycle; documents prepared as part of that activity are for internal management use only and are not made public