Sentence examples for standard bookkeeping from inspiring English sources

And it would require Albany to adopt generally accepted accounting principles, the standard bookkeeping rules used in business.

In 1908 a federal appeals court ruled against a patent for a bookkeeping system because it covered standard bookkeeping practice and therefore lacked innovation.

This is the standard double-entry bookkeeping system.

The initiative to create the credential comes at a time of increasing corporate pressure on regulators to agree on and adopt international accounting standards to simplify bookkeeping.

In the virtual absence of large-scale corporations, the Middle East was much slower to develop commercial bookkeeping, stock markets, and other standard features of Western capitalism — historical omissions that, he argues, bedevil it still.

The departments have to go back to simple standard operating routines of bookkeeping".

"I have been shocked by the number of Asian NGOs that don't have the minimal standards of accounting or bookkeeping," says Allen Choate, vice president of Partners in Asian Development for the Asia Foundation.

As nearly all organisations had some sort of financial aspects the Ministry of Finance set standards and rules for accounting and bookkeeping.

The convention requires that to become accredited, international adoption agencies must comply with uniform standards that include training for prospective parents, establishing staff qualifications and transparent bookkeeping.

(The White House said it was a bookkeeping shift that will cost taxpayers nothing; Democrats charged that it was evidence of a double standard).

One key challenge that needs to be overcome is that financial measures have been developed for over 500 years and are well understood, whereas standards for nature are at the financial equivalent of the 14th century, before the development of double-entry bookkeeping.