Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions. Transactions include sales, purchases, income, and payments by an individual or organisation. The persons who do this job are called bookkeepers. They use one of several methods, such as single-entry and double-entry bookkeeping.
Bookkeeping Media
Portrait of the Italian Luca Pacioli, painted by Jacopo de' Barbari, 1495, (Museo di Capodimonte). Pacioli is regarded as the Father of Accounting.