Maschinenbuchhalter
English translation: machine accountant
| 06:45 Apr 6, 2000 |
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| na | Computerised accountant |
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| na | Automated accountant |
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| na | machine accountant |
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| na | accounting/bookkeeping machine operator |
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Computerised accountant Explanation: Buchhalter is an accountant, and in these modern times(!) maschine refers to an automated or computerised system. |
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Automated accountant Explanation: This refers to a program (usually integrated into a comprehensive business OS) that basically does the work of an accountant. It generates invoices, keeps a ledger (which can be printed out for auditing purposes) and even prints out checks. Handy things to have if you're a big company. HTH, Will |
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machine accountant Explanation: The first two answers to your question make me think of a little robot with a green eyeshade sitting at a slanting desk with a big ledger in front of him. The translation here could depend on the age of the original German text. If you are quite sure your context is referring to a real person rather than a program, they might mean "machine accountant", a real bookkeeper who does/did the cost accounting for particular, usually large and important, machines. |
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1 day 2 hrs
accounting/bookkeeping machine operator Explanation: This is the term I found in EurodicAutom. A web search yielded few results; Maschinenbuchhaltung seems to mean automated bookkeeping, and the people who perform the job seem to be called Maschinenbucher/innen rather than Maschinenbuchhalter/innen. In any case, the job is probably not that of an accountant, because it is rather low on the German pay scale (level 4 of BAT). A job posting calls for a bookkeeping machine operator (http://www.washington.edu/admin/ocpsp/compensation/csaspecs/... Reference: http://eurodic.ip.lu/cgi-bin/edicbin/expert.pl Reference: http://stats.bls.gov/ocsm/comD344.htm |
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