book-keeping
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Humans are a striking example of this evolutionary book-keeping in action.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 13, 2022
Bankman-Fried often told employees tasked with monitoring the company's financials that the book-keeping system was "the ultimate source of truth" about the company's accounts, two of the people said.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2022
“I am happy to say that I sued Allied Artists for cosmetic book-keeping and they’re bankrupt,” he once recalled.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2020
From the endless bookings of the 70s, Kingsley Ward's wife Ann took several book-keeping jobs to keep Rockfield alive during the late 80s.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2020
Buoyed up with this hope, he had sent him to the Commercial School to study agricultural book-keeping, an accomplishment which the youth detested.
From The Red Room by Strindberg, August
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