bookkeeping
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of bookkeeping
Explanation
Bookkeeping is keeping track of a business's financial transactions. Most bookkeeping these days happens on computers rather than in actual books. The activity of keeping your own financial records and the job of doing the same thing for a company are both considered bookkeeping. Some people teach themselves basic bookkeeping and others hire experts to do it for them. The word bookkeeping comes from the sense of book that means "record" or "written document," and it has the distinction of being one of very few words in English with three consecutive double letters.
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Ramp, which provides bookkeeping and AI finance tools to businesses, announced a funding round this spring that valued it at $44 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
He said that independent farmers are already spread thinly, doing every job from bookkeeping, to HR, to tractor driving.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Its officers found a lack of basic bookkeeping records and mismatched information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
There’s not a textbook for empathy the way there is for Python or for bookkeeping.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 11, 2026
Bep is currently able to get hold of notebooks, especially journals and ledgers, useful for my bookkeeping sister!
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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