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A Dictionary of Business and Management | 2006 | © A Dictionary of Business and Management 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

book-keeping The keeping of the books of account of a business. The records kept enable a profit and loss account and the balance sheet to be compiled. Most firms now use business software packages of programs to enable the books to be kept by computer.

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