Ledger

Notable actor's surname

A ledger is a book or system for recording financial transactions—debits, credits, and running balances.

Accountants keep ledgers; businesses maintain them for tracking income and expenses.

The general ledger consolidates all accounts.

In blockchain technology, a distributed ledger records transactions across multiple computers.

Ledger also names a flat horizontal stone slab, especially one covering a grave.

accounting

journal

Record of daily events

  • balanceSteadiness or amount owed
  • debitSubtraction from account
  • creditRecognition or payment deferral

entries · bookkeeping · accounts · reconciliation · posting · trial balance · double-entry · subsidiary · audit · columns

physical

book

Bound written work

  • boundSecured or destined
  • ruledExercised sovereign authority
  • pagesBound paper sheets

hardcover · lined · handwritten · ink · spine · paper · register · volume · traditional · archive

blockchain

cryptocurrency

Encrypted decentralized money

blocks · transactions · decentralized · nodes · consensus · hash · wallet · mining · verification · transparency

music

line

Continuous mark or queue

horizontal · clef · notes · stave · score · treble · bass · bars · musical · keyboard

Categories
Opposites
record-keeping formality

Ledgerscrap paper

Discarded pages repurposed for notes

chaos · disorder · disorganization · sticky note · memory

financial transparency

Ledgerblack money

Illegally undeclared income

slush fund · cooking the books · money laundering · shadow economy · dark money

Phrases
Family

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