Meaning & use
bookkeeping
The systematic recording of a business's financial transactions.
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She handles the bakery's bookkeeping, tracking every sale and expense carefully.
Poor bookkeeping made it nearly impossible to file the company's annual taxes.
A note on using this word
Bookkeeping refers specifically to recording transactions, while accounting also includes analyzing and interpreting that financial data.
Words with a similar meaning
accounting
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