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Example sentences for "bookkeeping"

Lexicographically close words:
bookies; booking; bookish; bookkeeper; bookkeepers; bookless; booklet; booklets; bookmaker; bookmakers
  1. So long as the discounts are confined to commercial paper the bank's part in these transactions consists almost exclusively of bookkeeping between its customers and between itself and other banks.

  2. For the present it is important to note precisely how the discount of commercial paper is related to this bookkeeping process.

  3. The means available for this latter purpose will be explained in subsequent sections, as well as some of the details of this bookkeeping process.

  4. As was shown in the preceding chapter, the chief business of a commercial bank is to conduct exchanges by a process of bookkeeping between individuals, banks, communities, and nations.

  5. Many machines of different sorts have greatly changed bookkeeping methods, making the bookkeeper an initiative force in administration of business houses, and certainly similar economy systems will be developed for the cataloger.

  6. As to the free city business," said Lincoln, "well, I reckon it will be some time before the front door sets up bookkeeping on its own account.

  7. And these were not merely telling phrases like that characteristic one about the bookkeeping of the front door.

  8. C 3 was for clerical duty, and as I was not likely to become efficient again as a soldier, it looked like some kind of bookkeeping for me for the duration of the war.

  9. They then put me back at bookkeeping at Command Headquarters, Salisbury, but I couldn't figure English money and had a bad habit of fainting and falling off the high stool.

  10. There was some discussion of the methods used in conducting the business of the local unions, especially in regard to the bookkeeping system--or lack of system.

  11. It was realized also that responsible persons must be selected for the work of the local secretary-treasurer, and it was urged that some uniform system of bookkeeping be adopted for the use of local secretaries.

  12. Typesetting and bookkeeping are in some instances beginning to be open to them.

  13. Strict bookkeeping would probably demand a lower figure than 50 per cent.

  14. Keep your marriageable women, monsieur, or marry them to your clients--this professor of bookkeeping will not endorse them.

  15. I have a system of bookkeeping which is original, simple, practical, and absolutely reliable.

  16. There had been very little bookkeeping to-night.

  17. Probably nowhere in agricultural pursuits is there a more thorough system of bookkeeping than on these plantations.

  18. A practical knowledge of arithmetic is necessary for bookkeeping and selling goods--two of the most inviting openings now presented to women of ordinary intelligence.

  19. There is a large school for instruction in bookkeeping in Paris, where the pupils are practically trained.

  20. They endeavor to secure places for those who learn bookkeeping with them.

  21. For a first-class bookkeeper, practical experience in accounts and bookkeeping of business of all kinds are necessary qualifications.

  22. But the surprise of the day was supplied by Grierson, who emerged from his bookkeeping lair, his eyes not free from a moisture the origin of which was open to suspicion, and grasped Jim's hand.

  23. Sometimes a bank declines to pay supposing, through an error of bookkeeping perhaps, that the depositor has not money enough there to pay his check.

  24. If I had a son who wanted to go into the grocery business, I should take care that he was well grounded in the principles of sound bookkeeping and prudence.

  25. I suppose that made the bookkeeping complicated, which must have been wearing on her nerves; and hence her temper.

  26. It would have the effect to prevent such hoarding, certainly," said the superintendent, "but it is otherwise needful to simplify the national bookkeeping and prevent confusion.

  27. If the product of the operation were a mere bookkeeping profit or even mere bookkeeping economies then it might properly be called a business.

  28. Under Scientific Management there are no "bookkeeping records" kept of costs as such.

  29. What records are kept are more in the nature of "bookkeeping records," as Gillette and Dana call them, records "showing debits and credits between different accounts.

  30. In Australia this system of bookkeeping is discredited, although the recent attempt by a Commonwealth Referendum to abolish both it and the financial system of which it forms a part just failed.

  31. She is not able to release the equally weary girls who toil in the bookkeeping and auditing departments.

  32. Up under the roof, posting ledgers, auditing accounts, attending to all the complex bookkeeping of a great metropolitan department store, women.

  33. A man in your position, of course, will have any amount of writing and bookkeeping work, and you know I'd be glad to make a little extra myself.

  34. One reason for this is a bookkeeping reason.

  35. Franchises, since the days when the public awoke to their value, have cost money to the corporations that possess them, and figure in corporate bookkeeping often.

  36. Banks bookkeeping becomes merely a refinement of barter, with money remaining as a measure of values, a unit for reckoning, but not being used as a medium of exchange, or as a bearer of options, or in reserves.

  37. The banks do the bookkeeping for modern business in increasing degree.

  38. No systematic plans for utilizing the resources of such a society would be possible, no bookkeeping would be possible, without some such device.

  39. Whatever the business man can reduce to bookkeeping terms, and whatever he can measure by money in the market, the economist should be able to bring within the "orderly sequences of economic law.

  40. They are taught practical bookkeeping and are responsible for the smooth running of the supply department while they are working there.

  41. If he wishes to become a printer he can work on the school presses for an entire year, or he can put in all his shop time in the bookkeeping department if he is attracted by office work.

  42. Both boys and girls may take a beginners’ course in bookkeeping and office management.

  43. There are painting departments, and a metal working room, and also bookkeeping and stenography classes.

  44. His studies include, of course, lessons in typewriting and stenography, bookkeeping and accounting, filing, etc.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bookkeeping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accounting; audit; clerical