Bookkeeping
['bʊkkiːpɪŋ] or ['bʊk,kipɪŋ]
Definition
(n.) The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger.
Typist: Miguel
Examples
- They had sport, and never learned to write a bookkeeping hand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This machine is said to be the final step in relieving bookkeeping of its drudgery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But a Tim Sullivan is closer to the heart of statesmanship than five City Clubs full of people who want low taxes and orderly bookkeeping. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was said of Gladstone that he was the greatest Chancellor of the Exchequer England ever saw, but that as a retail merchant he would soon have ruined himself by his bookkeeping. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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