bookkeeping
[boo k-kee-ping]
- the work or skill of keeping account books or systematic records of money transactions (distinguished from accounting).
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Origin of bookkeeping
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Historical Examples of bookkeeping
My bookkeeping must have been a trial to his orderly, pigeon-holed soul.
Kent Knowles: QuahaugJoseph C. Lincoln
And yet, the only reason he was not now with her was solely a detail of bookkeeping.
The Wall Street GirlFrederick Orin Bartlett
The pretense at bookkeeping, unreal bookkeeping, he abandoned.
Pirate GoldFrederic Jesup Stimson
We have prepared, for home study, books on bookkeeping, penmanship and shorthand.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's TalesRobert L. Taylor
It would also simplify the bookkeeping of the commercial house.
Godfrey MorganJules Verne