account book
Business transaction log
An account book is a ledger or journal used to record financial transactions, tracking money received, spent, owed, or due.
Before computerized bookkeeping, businesses and households maintained physical account books to monitor their finances.
The term now sounds somewhat old-fashioned, as most accounting happens digitally, but it still appears in historical contexts and in references to basic record-keeping: She found her grandmother's account book from the 1940s in the attic.
Record of daily events
- entriesItems logged or submitted
- debitsRecorded account reductions
- creditsUnits toward graduation
- postingPublishing content online
folio · double-entry · trial balance · reconciliation · columnar · daybook · cashbook · general ledger
Record officially; vocal range
- logbookOfficial record of events
- chronicleOrdered historical record
- documentationWritten proof or instructions
- archivesStored historical documents
inventory · catalogue · notations · transactions · receipts · disbursements · purchases · sales
journal
Record of daily events
posting · folio · double-entry · trial balance · reconciliation · columnar · daybook · cashbook · general ledger · adjustment
register
Record officially; vocal range
- logbookOfficial record of events
- chronicleOrdered historical record
- documentationWritten proof or instructions
archives · inventory · catalogue · notations · transactions · receipts · disbursements · purchases · sales · payments
budget
Plan for spending
debt · expenses · income · investment · liabilities · profit · revenue · savings · assets · expenditure
- monastery recordschronicle, annals, necrology, customary, founding charter
- office suppliespens, pencils, paper clip, staplers, paperclip
- recordsbirth records, world record, record, Guinness, documents
- ledgersledger, general ledger, journal, subledger, cashbook
- manuscriptscodex, codices, folio, folios, papyri
account bookoff-the-books
Unrecorded for tax purposes
verbal agreement · handshake deal · mental accounting · oral contract · gentleman's agreement
account bookaccounting software
Program for financial records
digital ledger · spreadsheet · electronic records · database
book, account, recount, booklet, accounts, accountant, accountable, accounting, bookkeeper