bookkeeping

[book-kee-ping]

noun

1. the work or skill of keeping keeping account books or systematic records of money transactions (accounting ).

Other Word Forms

• bookkeeper noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of bookkeeping¹

First recorded in 1680–90; book + keeping

Example Sentences

Others included shamelessness, stubbornness and an elastic approach to bookkeeping.

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Other types of jobs that could be negatively impacted by AI: data entry, customer-service representative, graphic design, and bookkeeping.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has been gathering information, including through subpoenas it issued, about MassMutual’s bookkeeping around income on billions of dollars of loans it holds in its general investment account, the people said.

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She was reported to fill her time with needlepoint and bookkeeping duties, and was paroled in 2007 at the age of 77 from a low-security federal facility for women in Dublin, east of San Francisco.

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Bruland, who had her own bookkeeping business, started transferring large amounts of money from the couple's joint account in July 2022, and by December it was virtually empty.

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