0 someone whose job is keeping an exact record of the money that has been spent or received by a business or other organization:
1 someone whose job is to keep a record of all the money a company spends and receives:
The gang would bargain for the work with the overseer or the bookkeeper, and haggle vigorously about the price.
Initially, the self-employed are likely to be not just managing director but designer, shop floor worker, financial controller, teamaker and bookkeeper.
We have bookkeepers in our industry who have been with us 60 years, but that does not make them chartered accountants.
The matter would be much clearer if those people were still called clerks and bookkeepers.
They have to learn to be technicians, bookkeepers and administrators.
They cannot employ skilled accountants to make returns, and a fine craftsman would not necessarily him- self be a good accountant or an accurate bookkeeper.
They are partly tackling the problem with some additional money, but their announcement that they will spend £19 billion would make any double-entry bookkeeper blush.
A great deal of the commercial training, particularly of women—the training of shorthand typists and bookkeepers—is being done by the education authorities.
