bookkeeping

See also: book-keeping and book keeping

English

bookkeeping (usually uncountable, plural bookkeepings)

(accounting) The skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, e.g. income and expenses.
Coordinate terms: accounting, accountancy (sometimes loosely synonymous)
(computing) General tasks for maintaining a system.
Synonym: housekeeping

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)

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