account book; ledger; register
A book or record where financial transactions are systematically recorded; used in business, accounting, and bookkeeping contexts.
I record the monthly sales in the account book.
We must submit the ledgers to the tax office.
We record daily sales in the ledger.
The accounting department manages the company's ledgers.
At the end of the month, we reconcile the books to find any errors.
The company had falsified its books to evade taxes.
元帳 is the technical accounting term for the general ledger where all accounts are finally posted, while 帳簿 is the everyday word covering any record book.
帳簿 is a general term for any account ledger (often used for businesses), while 家計簿 specifically means a household's own income-and-expense record.
帳簿 specifically means an account book or ledger for financial records, while 帳 is the broader term that can refer to any kind of bound record book.
簿記 means the practice or skill of bookkeeping, whereas 帳簿 is the physical or digital book itself where entries are kept.
帳簿 means an account ledger (the book itself), while 帳消し means erasing an entry from such a ledger, i.e. writing off a debt.
帳簿 is the ledger or account book itself, while 記帳 is the act of writing an entry into such a book.
帳簿 is counted with 冊, the standard counter for bound books.
Compound of 帳 (register, notebook) and 簿 (record book). Both kanji carry the sense of written records, and the word has been used in Japanese for centuries to refer to account books.