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"double bookkeeping" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to the practice of keeping two sets of records for a business. For example, "My small business is required to practice double bookkeeping to comply with the standards of the tax authority."
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double bookkeeping
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The tendency, among those who experience delusions, to perceive reality and the delusions as both being real, while remaining unbothered by the discrepancy or inconsistencies between the two.
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There was a sort of double bookkeeping, forced by circumstances.
What more is needed than these findings of management by greed and double bookkeeping?
The other revelation from the archives is that, as the historian Vojtech Mastny has put it, there was no double bookkeeping.
It was double bookkeeping, a procedure not unlike that ordered by the White House in early 1969 to help disguise the B-52 bombings of Cambodia.
She seemed to accept the premises of two conflicting realities, a phenomenon known as "double bookkeeping," in which psychotic patients who are able to distinguish reality from fantasy go on living and believing in both.
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He takes no more in kickbacks from naval contractors than anyone of his time would expect, though he does do some double-bookkeeping during the Second Dutch War, starting a second journal to record his share of the plunder.
For the doxastic conception of delusions, the greatest challenge is to provide a satisfactory reply to the double-bookkeeping objection: if people truly believe the content of their delusions, why is their behavior often inconsistent with it?
Our capacity for double-bookkeeping on the subject is impressive.
So rather than 'baby brain' pate, bitcoin and blockchain are the future of money and while double entry bookkeeping types might not like the idea of it getting served up, triple entry bookkeeping is the wave of the future.
Capitalism's profound effect on society has encouraged economic and accounting historians to hypothesise about the importance of double entry bookkeeping to its development.
The study examines the contest between rival interests following the Treasury's decision to explore the potential of "the mercantile system of double entry" bookkeeping as the basis for recording and reporting the financial affairs of British central government.
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