bookkeeping

Example Sentences

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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

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

As Jackson’s media prominence grew — including a cover photo on Time magazine in 1970 — tensions erupted between Jackson and SCLC, in part because of the sloppy bookkeeping that became a Jackson characteristic.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

Others included shamelessness, stubbornness and an elastic approach to bookkeeping.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

There would seem to be no connection between bookkeeping and science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton