business records
Corporate paper trail
Business records are documents created and maintained in the ordinary course of commerce—invoices, contracts, receipts, ledgers, correspondence, payroll files.
In law, business records receive special treatment as evidence: records made routinely at or near the time of events are often admissible despite hearsay rules, on the theory that regular business practices ensure reliability.
The prosecution introduced the company's business records to establish the timeline of transactions.
- invoicesItemized payment demands
- accountsRecords of transactions
- bank statementsRecords of account transactions
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
- entriesItems logged or submitted
documentation · transactions · audit trail · receipts · evidence · contracts · journals · logbooks · ledger · financial statements · legal documents · registers · chain of custody · due diligence · files · folders · archive · spreadsheets
- recordsGuinness, documents, album, death certificates, files
- economic recordsaccount books, ledgers, financial statements, receipts, invoices
- evidenceevidence, evidence bag, circumstantial evidence, proof, admissible
- genealogy recordsbirth certificates, death certificates, marriage licenses, vital statistics, family trees
- archivesnational archives, state archives, archivist, archive box, national archive
- financial recordsbank statements, ledger, account statements, invoice, balance sheet
business recordspersonal correspondence
Direct written communication between individuals
private letters · personal diary · love letters · diary entries · personal papers
business recordscasual conversation
Informal spoken exchange
gossip · hearsay · water cooler talk · scuttlebutt · oral agreements
business recordsoral history
Recorded interviews about the past
folk memory · oral tradition · tacit knowledge · word of mouth · institutional memory
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