Not only did its soaring descriptions of the freedom of flight ("the airplane is a means of getting away from towns and their bookkeeping and coming to grips with reality") inspire me to learn how to fly (I had my first lesson in August and I'm hooked!) it also was part of the reason I gave up my job in advertising (which might as well be bookkeeping) to write.
Chan earned a degree in psychology from Cal State Northridge, worked for an industrial psychological firm, and for the last eight years served as the market manager in Atwater Village, with expertise in bookkeeping and grant writing.
She still has bookkeeping clients, and does it all tax returns, audit representation, writing and teaching.
Indeed, the Center for Consumer Freedom, which among other things fights against efforts to curb the sale of sodas and snacks in schools, channeled more than 90 percent of its revenues in 2008 to Mr. Berman's firm for its services, including everything from writing and placing op-ed articles to the bookkeeping, which is overseen by Mr. Berman's wife, Dixie, for all the nonprofits and the firm.
She received a bachelor of arts degree in art from Hunter College and a masters degree in education from the Bank Street College and had a varied career that included editing, comic book writing, bookkeeping, publicity direction, and occupational therapy, but found her true calling in writing.
The secretary, Shah Sahib, handled the household accounts, writing up all the expenses in a complicated double-entry bookkeeping system, so complicated, in fact, that K.K. couldn't and wouldn't take the trouble to understand it.
The French American archaeologist Denise Schmandt-Besserat, building on a hypothesis advanced by the Assyriologist Pierre Amiet of the Louvre, demonstrated a series of small steps leading from the use of tokens for simple bookkeeping purposes to the development of written tablets on which graphs of the script stand for morphemes of spoken Sumerian.
Set aside a time weekly, bi-weekly or monthly to do your listing and totaling of bookkeeping -- or give it to someone else to write it for you -- and total it by desired categories.
"I ran his life like a tidy ship — I took care of the kids, the bookkeeping and bill paying, and got the insurance we needed," she writes.
The news helped send shares of Tyco up $3, to $51.50, nearly the level they were at in October of last year, before a prominent investment manager wrote a report in which he called the company's bookkeeping methods too aggressive.
