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bookkeeping

[book-kee-ping] / ˈbʊkˌki pɪŋ /
NOUN
accounting
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There’s not a textbook for empathy the way there is for Python or for bookkeeping.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 11, 2026

Automation had been hollowing out middle-skill work since the early 2000s, quietly eliminating the clerical roles, bookkeeping jobs and sales positions that once absorbed India's graduates.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

“Everything has been discussed, every move, every act that I’ve taken toward the NIL, every step — bookkeeping and everything — has been handled and handed over to UCLA.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

Salvatore, who is 44 years old, also feeds information from both his point-of-sale system and from bookkeeping service QuickBooks into Google’s NotebookLM AI tool.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

Double-entry bookkeeping thus represents an attempt to make the real world, the world of bolts of silk, bales of wool and bags of sugar, mathematically legible.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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