ledgers
Books of accounts
Ledgers are books or records for keeping financial accounts.
Each transaction gets entered as a debit or credit, allowing businesses to track money flowing in and out.
The term extends to any systematic record: The team kept a ledger of wins and losses.
In construction, a ledger is a horizontal board attached to a wall to support joists or scaffolding.
Records of transactions
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
- entriesItems logged or submitted
- debitsRecorded account reductions
- creditsUnits toward graduation
balances · double-entry · reconciliation · posting · trial balance · fiscal period · accruals · adjustments
Written proof or instructions
- record-keepingMaintaining organized documentation
- auditFormal accounts examination
- logsCut wood sections
- archivesStored historical documents
registration · inventory · tracking · historical records · paper trail · filing · notation · chronological
Exchanges of value
- financialsMonetary records and reports
- assetsOwned items of value
- liabilitiesAmounts owed to others
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
invoices · expenses · revenue · profit · loss · cashflow · receivables · payables
Divided and given out
- decentralizedLacking single authority
- immutableIncapable of being changed
- cryptocurrencyEncrypted decentralized money
- BitcoinPeer-to-peer electronic cash
Ethereum · nodes · consensus · hash · blocks · mining · wallet · transparency
accounts
Records of transactions
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
- entriesItems logged or submitted
- debitsRecorded account reductions
credits · balances · double-entry · reconciliation · posting · trial balance · fiscal period · accruals · adjustments · bookkeeper
documentation
Written proof or instructions
- record-keepingMaintaining organized documentation
- auditFormal accounts examination
- logsCut wood sections
archives · registration · inventory · tracking · historical records · paper trail · filing · notation · chronological · handwritten
transactions
Exchanges of value
- financialsMonetary records and reports
- assetsOwned items of value
- liabilitiesAmounts owed to others
equity · invoices · expenses · revenue · profit · loss · cashflow · receivables · payables · depreciation
distributed
Divided and given out
- decentralizedLacking single authority
- immutableIncapable of being changed
- cryptocurrencyEncrypted decentralized money
Bitcoin · Ethereum · nodes · consensus · hash · blocks · mining · wallet · transparency · verification
horizontal
Parallel to the horizon
- planksFlat construction lumber pieces
- boardsPlanks or governing bodies
- platformsElevated flat surfaces
supports · framework · staging · construction · bracing · walkways · decking · timber · crossbeams · load-bearing
- historical recordsdiary, census record, annual reviews, letter, government records
- bank suppliesdeposit slips, checks, checkbooks, coin wrappers, coin rolls
- office suppliespens, pencils, paper clip, staplers, paperclip
- financebank, CFO, banks, controller, finance
- historical documentsDeclaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Emancipation Proclamation, Federalist Papers
- organizersdesk organizer, drawer organizer, closet organizer, desk organizers, drawer organizers
- window ledgeHorizontal surface beneath glass
- Heath Ledger
- bank ledgerFinancial institution's record book
- general ledgerMaster accounting record
- rocky ledge
- ledger bookBook of accounts