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take up or receive

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the person who keeps the financial records of businesses.

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recording the monetary value of the financial transactions of a business in an orderly way,...

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internal control measure applied by making sure that accounting data is kept properly in order...

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the five main stages of the accounting process: source → documents → ledger (T-accounts) → Trial...

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