bookkeeping

See also: book-keeping and book keeping

English

Alternative forms

• book-keeping, book keeping

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.

Translations

skill of keeping records of financial transactions

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

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

• Finnish: kirjanpito (fi)
• French: comptabilité (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Buchhaltung (de) f
• Ido: ekrito (io)
• Italian: contabilità (it) f
• Portuguese: escrituração (pt) f
• Romanian: contabilitate (ro) f
• Russian: бухгалте́рия (ru) f (buxgaltérija), счетово́дство (ru) n (sčetovódstvo), бухга́лтерский учёт (ru) m (buxgálterskij učót)
• Spanish: contabilidad (es) f

Verb

bookkeeping

1. present participle of bookkeep

Further reading

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