(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Francisco Moreno, an unemployed bookkeeper, scoffed at Spanish leaders' calls on the public to be patient.
(2) Bookkeeping suggests that some K(+) influx be called active.
(3) Most hospitals use time clocks for nonsalaried employees for bookkeeping purposes; dissatisfaction with this method of tracking hours worked does not appear to be widespread.
(4) The virtues of graft were drummed in by his parents, Nettie, a bookkeeper and Martin, an engraver – so successfully that at 17 Woody was earning more than them both combined , rattling out gags for comedians and columnists.
(5) Shortly afterwards, the heiress's former bookkeeper claimed Bettencourt had made illegal cash donations to Sarkozy's 2007 presidential election campaign, an allegation vehemently denied by the French leader and his entourage.
(6) "This will mean the end of the quite onerous bookkeeping and segregation of supplies, equipment and people that were necessary under the Bush executive order," he said.
(7) "This will mean the end of the quite onerous bookkeeping and segregation of supplies, equipment and people that were necessary under the Bush executive order," said BD Colen, spokesman for the institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(8) The person(s) responsible for bookkeeping and accounting should choose carefully, ensuring that any system is easy to use, has been thoroughly tested, and provides at least as much control over office records as has been outlined in this article.
(9) Vanessa Chantal Paradis – granted such a birth name you'd feel, surely, that you had failed if you ended up, at 37, bookkeeping for a toilet supplies company rather than, say, having a string of bestselling albums, a swish-sexy batch of films behind you, and a partner regarded even by men as the sexiest actor in the world… Ms Paradis, who is still not Mrs Depp, is a cool, measured draught of sanguine thoughtfulness, which is not quite what I had expected.
(10) The secret to good bookkeeping is to keep it up to date on a daily basis.
(11) In the past, a PC's "jobs" have included education, bookkeeping, business workflows (where Office especially dominates), media creation and consumption, internet-based communication (text, audio or visual) and social media.
(12) The same applies to underhand accounting practices: the shopper who rumbles Tesco’s shoddy pricing strategy can’t be expected to extend their scrutiny to the supermarket’s internal bookkeeping.
(13) Jacqueline Ruge, 44, a bookkeeper from Berlin, says she understands the need to help out Germany's neighbours, but this generosity should not be abused.
(14) Computers can calibrate and monitor instrument performance regularly, and can handle managerial and clerical duties such as bookkeeping.
(15) In the basement archives of a local arts and crafts museum where the books and bookkeeping registers were handled, a woman on the museum staff had had ten attacks of fever, chill, nausea and cough during one year.
(16) Whether you’re a bookkeeper, a supplier, a driver, a cook, whatever you are, if what you’re doing helps the machinery of death of a regime to keep rolling, you should be called to account.
(17) In the past, erring executives have rarely got prison time for their roles in shady bookkeeping.
(18) The page was sent to Ballou on 31 January 1968, several weeks before King was assassinated, by Lillie Hunter, bookkeeper for the SCLC and secretary to Ralph Abernathy – a close associated of King.
(19) Beginning in the 1920s and culminating in the work of Kinsey in the 1940s and 1950s, a tradiition of social bookkeeping began focusing on the sexual behavior of relatively normal persons.
(20) She was at home until my younger sister went to primary school and then worked only school hours as a bookkeeper until we were in our teens: she was always there, taken for granted in the background.
Notebook
Definition:
(n.) A book in which notes or memorandums are written.
(n.) A book in which notes of hand are registered.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
(2) Only Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary to the Department for Exiting the European Union , had a slim notebook (shut) and pen.
(3) He opened a small notebook as a demonstration of how the al-Qaida justice system had resolved 42 cases in a fortnight.
(4) He also unveiled a new ultra-thin notebook, the MacBook Air, but Apple is no longer best known for its computers.
(5) The first scratch of an HB pencil across the fresh page of a new notebook.
(6) What I like best is hearing that The Golden Notebook is on reading lists for political or history classes.
(7) As the contest meandered and the stadium went close to quiet there was a jocular moment when Pardew hopped in irritation at a United challenge and the manager dropped his ever-present notebook on the pitch.
(8) Featuring handwritten lyrics and prose drawn from his notebooks and scraps of paper he kept in ringbinders, the selection was put together with the help of journalist Jon Savage .
(9) There's a squeeze ball, with "Red Ed – the unions' squeeze" on it, some "guess who" cards (see 3.32pm and you'll get the general idea) and "Ed Miliband's detailed plan for reducing the deficit" (a blank notebook).
(10) In my handbag, there’s generally a book, a spare book, and a notebook.
(11) He had written the name "Ian" in the top left hand corner of some of the pages in his notebooks which contained that information.
(12) The disgraced former MSP has instructed his lawyers to pursue the NoW and the convicted private investigator Glenn Mulcaire for breach of privacy after details about his home address and mobile phone were found in two of Mulcaire's notebooks in a police raid four years ago.
(13) Here was a woman, "dismal, drab, embarrassing," sodden with "self-pity," who in the Golden Notebook had single-handedly set back the women's movement "a good long way".
(14) I loved her earlier writing about her life in Africa, which was relaxed and vivid, and which I recognised again when The Golden Notebook 's story took it to Africa, but when it moved to London the style became clumsier.
(15) Major works: The Grass is Singing, 1950; In Pursuit of the English,1960; The Golden Notebook, 1962; The Memoirs Of A Survivor, 1975; The Good Terrorist, 1985; Under my Skin, 1994.
(16) At King's College London, where Jarman was a student, immersive exhibition Pandemonium includes rarely seen Super-8 films and elaborate notebooks, while Tate Modern is screening his final film, Blue.
(17) I remember being so stunned by the figure I scribbled it at the top of my notebook, as a reminder to ask him about it.
(18) In my notebook, I map out the contours of his lecture in a series of headings.
(19) The market for PCs (desktops and fixed-keyboard notebooks) will be flat, at best, but Microsoft – and computer makers – have a lot staked on "convertibles" with detachable keyboards, and touchscreen laptops.
(20) He and Doris Lessing will be discussing The Golden Notebook on Wednesday January 17 at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1 at 7pm.