bookkeeps

Maintains financial records

Bookkeeps is the third-person singular of bookkeep, a back-formation from bookkeeper.

To bookkeep is to maintain financial records—tracking income, expenses, and transactions: She bookkeeps for several small businesses on the side.

The verb is less common than the noun forms bookkeeper and bookkeeping.

accounting

ledger

Financial record book

debitsRecorded account reductions
creditsUnits toward graduation
journalRecord of daily events

entries · balances · reconciles · accounts · transactions · records · posts · audits · invoices · receipts

process

tracks

Marks showing passage

monitorsTracks or displays
organizesPuts into systematic order
categorizesSorts into groups

documents · verifies · maintains · updates · files · stores · archives · systematizes · inputs · logs

business

finances

Monetary affairs

expensesMoney spent on things
revenueBusiness income total
payrollStaff wages collectively

taxes · budgets · cash flow · profit · loss · overhead · assets · liabilities · equity · invoicing

Opposites

financial record management

bookkeepsaudits

Formal account inspections

cooks the books · embezzles · squanders

order vs. disorder

bookkeepsdisorganizes

Disrupts systematic arrangement

loses track · misfiles

Phrases

bookkeeping softwareProgram for tracking finances

Family

bookkeeper, bookkeeping, bookkeepers

Familiarity: Top 1,000,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G