bookkeeping

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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

In death as in life, the only relief he can find is in the bookkeeping drudgery that has become not just his identity but his very soul.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Their statement also stresses that they effectively opened up their entire bookkeeping system to the Premier League for the purposes of the investigation.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Burrowes draws from his bookkeeping records to support his claims, including one that Combs reneged on a promise to pay for Notorious B.I.G.’s public funeral.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

So from the point of view of asteroid research the twentieth century was essentially just a long exercise in bookkeeping.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson