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Answer for the clue "The activity of recording business transactions ", 11 letters:
bookkeeping

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Word definitions for bookkeeping in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bookkeeping \Book"keep`ing\, 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 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the activity of recording business transactions [syn: clerking ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (lb en accounting) the skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, e.g. income and expenses. vb. (present participle of bookkeep English)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Arcane bookkeeping procedures, however, probably conceal an even greater amount. ▪ Before we can deal with the family in any realistic way, though, we have to do some family bookkeeping . ▪ But it was soon apparent to her that ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Class 11 Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions, and is part of the process of accounting in business . Transactions include purchases, sales, receipts, and payments by an individual person or an organization/corporation. There are several ...

Usage examples of bookkeeping.

He picked up the phone and dialed The Bullpen, knowing Amanda did her bookkeeping on Sundays.

Vaal did not answer but simply passed Fawkes a leather-bound book about the size of a thin bookkeeping ledger.

Today Amalia will draw a line under the bookkeeping for June and the envelope will go off to Nicholas Croog in St.

Ever since the Soviet Union so unsportingly disbanded in order to pursue protocapitalism and double-entry bookkeeping, our warlords have been anxiously searching for new enemies in order to justify an ever increasing military budget.

Gottfried Leibniz and others vociferously disagreed, claiming that space and time are merely bookkeeping devices for conveniently summarizing relationships between objects and events within the universe.

From every enquiry I could make, and I took much pains to obtain accurate information, it appeared that much is attempted, but very little beyond reading, writing, and bookkeeping, is thoroughly acquired.

Besides the house and the school, she had taken over the bookkeeping for the plantation, just to keep a hand in the running of the complex operation.

Ignoring the remark, Qwilleran asked with mock innocence, "Is the woman with Floyd his bookkeeping daughter?

She took adult education literature courses so she could talk to customers about books, and computer courses so she could use bookkeeping systems and inventory systems.

The Traders needed applied mathematics -- bookkeeping and accounting, astrogation, nucleonics for a hydrogen-fusion-powered n-ship.

He enters that on the books as a bank asset, credits your account with one hundred shekels, gives you a bank book, and some blank checks, and you thank him for the money, which is new money, monetized by your security and existing only as bookkeeping entries.

There were a lot of business-like papers on the desk, with columns of figures, done on a bookkeeping machine.

They've also been used to pass child pornography hand to hand, smuggle corporate secrets out of IBM, and hide criminal bookkeeping from the FBI - and those are just a few that I know about.

It was just something to even up the bookkeeping and save the law of conservation of mass energy.

It all depends on order and exactness, on a careful double bookkeeping.