bookkeeping

See also: book-keeping and book keeping

English

Alternative forms

• book-keeping, book keeping

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊkˌkiːpɪŋ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

bookkeeping (usually uncountable, plural bookkeepings)

1. (accounting) The skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, e.g. income and expenses.

   Synonyms: accounting, accountancy

2. (computing) General tasks for maintaining a system.

   Synonym: housekeeping

Derived terms

• bookkeeping machine
• double bookkeeping
• Hollywood bookkeeping

Translations

skill of keeping records of financial transactions

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հաշվապահություն (hy) (hašvapahutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: водене на книги n (vodene na knigi), водене на сметки n (vodene na smetki)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 記帳／记帐 (zh) (jìzhàng), 簿記／簿记 (zh) (bùjì)

• Finnish: kirjanpito (fi)
• French: comptabilité (fr) f
• German: Buchhaltung (de) f
• Greek: λογιστική (el) f (logistikí), καταστιχογραφία (el) f (katastichografía)
• Hungarian: könyvelés (hu), könyvvitel (hu)
• Ido: ekrito (io)
• Indonesian: pembukuan (id)
• Italian: contabilità (it) f
• Japanese: 簿記 (ja) (boki)
• Macedonian: книговодство n (knigovodstvo)
• Portuguese: escrituração (pt) f
• Romanian: contabilitate (ro) f
• Russian: бухгалте́рия (ru) f (buxgaltérija), счетово́дство (ru) n (sčetovódstvo), бухга́лтерский учёт m (buxgálterskij učót)
• Spanish: contabilidad (es) f
• Swahili: uwekaji hesabu
• Ukrainian: бухгалте́рія (uk) f (buxhaltérija), бухо́блік (uk) m (buxóblik), бухгалтерський о́блік m (buxhaltersʹkyj óblik), бухгалтерський о́блік m (buxhaltersʹkyj óblik)

Verb

bookkeeping

1. present participle and gerund of bookkeep

Further reading

• “bookkeeping”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.