bookkeeper
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bookkeepers
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Amy’s certified public accountant wrote that the bookkeeper was under “direction to not reply or provide information” to one of Sandy’s attorneys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Richard Kahn, Epstein's accountant and bookkeeper since 2005, had told the mansion's staff to pack two suitcases with the contents of the safe and deliver them to his home, agents wrote.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
His mother worked part time as a bookkeeper while his father was a tax attorney.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Tony Gene Broxton, a former fire department bookkeeper from the Florida Panhandle, was indicted in 2013 on federal charges of theft of public money and making false statements.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
The Panic of 1893 was followed by a boom in corporations and their demand for what we now call white-collar office workers, such as stenographers and bookkeepers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Refugees work as housekeepers, maintenance workers and dishwashers, but also as bookkeepers and marketing assistants.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
The moral bookkeepers would assure you: The math works out, your conscience is clean, don’t give it a second thought.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
Rather, the guidelines ask scientific bookkeepers in each country to quantify levels of a particular activity.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
They were the postal workers and the struggling bookkeepers and the men lying on their couches at home without any job at all.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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