bookkeeper

as in recorder
a person whose job is to keep the financial records for a business questioned the bookkeeper about an entry in the accounts

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Recent Examples of bookkeeper Outside of the Finance, Accounting, and Tax Departments, Rea observed that startup founders, fractional CFOs, CPAs, bookkeepers, and biz ops teams also deal with Sales Tax and global VAT issue, depending on industry and company stage. David Moon (junseo Moon), Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025 Using OpenAI's deep research tool, one X tech enthusiast asked it to list the 20 jobs that will be replaced by AI and many of these jobs - proofreaders, bookkeepers, social media marketers, content providers, customer service representatives - are performed primarily by females. Gene Marks, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025 As the former bookkeeper of Off Road Warehouse’s shop in San Diego, Carey Alice Hernandez was responsible for the company’s finances ahead of the March 2019 fire that destroyed the building, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California. Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 24 Feb. 2025 The business let go of roughly 90 part-time employees, keeping just the co-CEOs, a bookkeeper and their resident slime-maker. Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bookkeeper
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  • The truck was going 51 mph, as measured by the fire truck’s vehicle data recorder, at the time of the crash on a street where the speed limit is 35 mph .
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2025
  • Police received a search warrant for the event data recorder in the Dodge a few days later and found that the car was traveling at 85 mph less than one second before the crash, according to the affidavit.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2025
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  • Miami Herald reporter Milena Malaver contributed to this story.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 17 May 2025
  • The Sacramento Bee 916-321-1040 Darrell Smith is The Sacramento Bee’s Equity Lab reporter covering issues important to the Black community and diverse voices in the capital region.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Qatar funded Representative Ilhan Omar’s trip to the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and gave $1 million to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was still serving as U.S. secretary of state.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
  • Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, General Staff chief Valery Gerasimov, and National Security Council secretary Sergei Shoigu also attended.
    Mehmet Guzel, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
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  • Rubio became secretary of state on Jan. 21, 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development administrator on Feb. 3, archivist of the United States on Feb. 16, and national security adviser on May 1.
    Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 2 May 2025
  • Rubio is also the acting archivist of the United States.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 1 May 2025
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  • Representatives of the registrar of voters office did not respond to the La Jolla Light’s request for comment.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2025
  • The county filed the complaint last month with the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center against Pope and the registrar, NameCheap Inc., of Phoenix.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2025
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  • The ‘Appellate Guru’: Alexandra A.E. Shapiro Founding partner of New York firm Shapiro Arato Bach, Shapiro began her legal career more than 30 years ago serving as one of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s first clerks.
    Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 13 May 2025
  • Court documents suggest Dugan was alerted to the agents' presence by her clerk, who was informed by an attorney that the agents appeared to be in the hallway.
    Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 13 May 2025

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“Bookkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bookkeeper. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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