The standard system for doing this is double entry bookkeeping, invented in the fifteenth century by an Italian monk.

An exercise in double entry bookkeeping is given in Appendix 3.1.

Never could get the hang of double entry bookkeeping.

Instead of gaining prestige from numbers, double entry bookkeeping helped confer cultural authority on numbers.

I continued my studies, learning the finer points of embezzling, expense account grafting; double and treble entry bookkeeping.

Someday he'll be just like all the rest of us, learn to line it up like double - entry bookkeeping.

These days, single entry bookkeeping can be done with DIY bookkeeping software to speed up manual calculations.

Computerized bookkeeping removes many of the paper "books" that are used to record transactions and usually enforces double entry bookkeeping.

In finance, double entry bookkeeping, the limited liability company, life insurance, and the charge card were all first used in the West.

They point to a kind of double entry bookkeeping, as some offers were raised in the face of client protests and others were lowered to keep the total to $190 million.