machine bookkeeping
1bookkeeping machine — noun : a key operated business machine designed especially for keeping and posting office records and for performing computational functions …
2Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting — ERMA, for Electronic Recording Machine Accounting , was a pioneering computer development project run at SRI under contract to Bank of America in order to automate banking bookkeeping. The project, under the technical leadership of computer… …
3Adding machine — See adding machine (disambiguation) for other uses of this term. An adding machine is a type of calculator, usually specialized for bookkeeping calculations.In the United States, the earliest adding machines were usually built to read in dollars… …
4Tabulating machine — The tabulating machine was a machine designed to assist in tabulations. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.The term Super Computing was first used by the New York World newspaper… …
5business machine — noun : a machine (as a computer or tabulator) designed especially to facilitate clerical operations common in business or industrial firms * * * a machine for expediting clerical work, as a tabulator or adding machine. * * * business machine, any …
6accounting machine — noun 1. : a key operated machine which dates, codes, tabulates, adds, subtracts, or totals chiefly in the process of keeping business records (as accounts payable or receivable) 2. : a business machine that selects information from punched cards… …
7Automated Teller Machine Communication Security — Automated Teller Machines were first used in 1939. Nowadays, about 1.5 million are installed worldwide [ [http://www.atmmarketplace.com/news story 24706.htm Number of ATMs worldwide expected to hit 1.5 million in December 2005] www.atmmarketplace …
8accounting machine — a machine for performing bookkeeping functions, as arithmetic operations or vertical and horizontal tabulations. [1955 60] * * * …
9add|ing machine — «AD ihng», any one of several machines for calculating or computing by mechanical or electrical means. Adding machines are used to speed up bookkeeping operations …
10accounting — /euh kown ting/, n. 1. the theory and system of setting up, maintaining, and auditing the books of a firm; art of analyzing the financial position and operating results of a business house from a study of its sales, purchases, overhead, etc.… …
