(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.
Reading
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Read
(n.) The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
(n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
(n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital.
(n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
(n.) Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.
(n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
(a.) Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
(3) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(4) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
(5) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(6) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(7) In group V, five cases of Taenia saginata parasitosis were studied showing a weak positive reading.
(8) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(9) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(10) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(11) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(12) In fact, you might read it as a signal … that the president might well lose on this,” she said.
(13) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(14) Extensive sequence homologies and other genetic features are shared with the related oncogenic virus, human papillomavirus type 16, especially in the major reading frames.
(15) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(16) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(17) On the initial visit, the best corrected acuity with spectacles was determined and a potential acuity meter reading was obtained; this test suggested potential for visual recovery in two of the three patients.
(18) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
(19) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(20) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.