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Bookkeeping

The practice or profession of recording transactions. That is, bookkeeping involves maintaining financial records, noting expenses or revenue, and determining how much one owes or is owed. It is related to, but distinct from, accounting. While accountants create reports based on financial information, bookkeepers record the information itself.

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Because of the power of the recently invented printing press to spread multiple copies of identical texts relatively cheaply and quickly, Pacioli's book-keeping treatise, as the first printed synthesis of the method, made Venetian book-keeping the standard across Europe by 1800, the dawn of the industrial age.

Luca Pacioli's double entry and the birth of financial management: Venetian trade was booming at the end of the 11th century and saw the introduction of double-entry book-keeping. Here's how it evolved ..

The first locally authored and published work to provide a comprehensive treatment of pastoral accounting, Station Bookkeeping: A Treatise on Double Entry Book-keeping for Pastoralists, appeared in 1900.

F.E. Vigars' Station Book-keeping: a specialist Australian text enabling the adaptation and transfer of accounting technology

According to an internal document from the stock exchange, Feelgood has broken the book-keeping rules in several ways and also missed out on the demands for inviting to a general shareholders meeting as well as not publishing press releases on its web site.

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These seminars will include topics such as book-keeping, financial planning, completing the business plan, business awareness, taxation, Vat, and a special 3-day business skills training programme.

Courses and seminars galore, euros and a Winter Fair; TRAINING AND ADVICE: Business Connect branches are venues for events and sources of advice on many commercial issues

But they're going to walk away without leaving any social imprint other than a financial book-keeping exercise.

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KIRKLEES firms have been warned about a crackdown on poor book-keeping.

Warning as taxman targets poor book-keeping

FINANCE and Management Business School is offering the opportunity of free book-keeping and Sage taster courses suitable for all levels.

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TWO young mothers have set up a book-keeping service "with a difference" for businesses in the Wrexham and Flintshire areas who can't afford to run their own accounts department.