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How does 'counting' relate to ‘course of business dealings requiring records’, ‘arrangement to keep money in a business, bank, etc.’?

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I saw this at https://english.stackexchange.com/q/624915, but it got closed without answer. I would like answers, thx.

Etymonline commences with c. 1300, "counting," especially "reckoning of money received and paid, detailed statement of funds owed or spent or property held". Then in the second para., out of left field, Etymonline leaps to

The meaning "course of business dealings requiring records" is from 1640s; hence "arrangement to keep money in a business, bank, etc." (1833)

How did “counting” turn, or pass, into "course of business dealings requiring records"?

Then how did "course of business dealings requiring records’ develop into ‘arrangement to keep money in a business, bank, etc.’ ? How can "counting" have anything to do with these senses?

Etymonline skipped too many steps! please spell out all the steps? thanks.

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