sales ledger

Examples of ledger

ledger
She wanted to balance the ledger, to demonstrate the "true dimensions" of the "totality of the moral collapse" (111).
Most petitions were blank forms with ledgers for signatures, printed and distributed by farm journal editors.
The pages of the ledger book were divided into seven columns and each recaptive was assigned one line.
Harding's work includes comprehensive references to military reports, packing lists, shipwrecks, inventories, expenditure ledgers and accounts receivable.
But he will end up with a better moral ledger if he does.
People registered next to each other in the ledgers lived next to each other in the town.
Such texts are sorely needed, if only to tell more about life on the other side of the colonial ledger.
These summaries were prepared from actual ledgers listing day-by-day transactions.
If merchants' assiduous ledger-keeping reflects a need to establish a literary type of credit, their performance as trustworthy commercial actors suggests affinities with the theatre.
On the harm side of the ledger, disclosure is not always a benign activity.
Once the cane was weighed, quantities were recorded in the mill's ledger.
Since independence, there have been rural taxes and rural tax agencies whose offices usually have ledgers containing data covering the past 10 years.
It thus quite clearly will improve his eventual moral ledger.
Africans released from captured vessels were asked to supply information about themselves that was entered in large ledger books that became part of the official court record.
Pagno is the only workman named in the ledger to be accorded that distinction.
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