A5 Accounting Notes book standing closed on a desk beside a calculator, roughly eight millimetres thick.

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Accounting Notes

One hundred and twenty pages built for calculation and note-taking rather than a fixed ledger table, with eleven pages of plain notes behind them.

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Specification

Type: Logbook
Trim: 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
Pages: 140
Leaves: 70
Sheets: 35
Signatures: 7 × 20pp
Spine: 8.01 mm
Paper: white
Dating: Undated

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One hundred and twenty pages for working figures out, not ruled into a cash book's fixed columns. A ledger page assumes every entry looks the same: date, particulars, amount. Working a figure out rarely looks that tidy, and a book that forces it into five columns before you have finished the sum gets abandoned by the second week.

Eleven pages of plain notes follow, for the part of the job that is not numbers at all: what a client actually said, which invoice is still in dispute, a question to raise before the accounts get signed off.

It will not check your arithmetic, and it will not tell you which figures a client is legally required to disclose. Those answers come from the standard you work to and the software you reconcile against, not from a page of paper.

What is inside

Working pages: 120pp; Built for calculation and note-taking, not a fixed ledger grid, so a figure can be worked out however it actually arrives.
Notes: 11pp; Plain pages for the part of the job that is not a number at all.
Reference: 6pp; Length and weight tables worked from definitions, with emergency numbers checked against two sources apiece.
Last leaf: 1pp; A pen-test page, printed on purpose, so the working pages stay clean of it.

In every book

The same six pages open every book: your details, who to call, the signs to point at when you have no shared language, and the map. They sit at the front because the moment you need them is not the moment to be flicking through.

This book belongs to: One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back.
My details: Blood group, allergies, who to call. Written once, carried everywhere.
Emergency numbers: Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival.
Point at this: A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language.
World map: Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart.
Conversion tables: Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book.
Pen test leaf: The last page, printed for it on purpose. Every notebook is used this way; printing it deliberately is cheaper than losing the last leaf to it by accident.

The film

Page by page

A vertical film, 52 seconds: the cover, the ruling page, then 5 reference pages. Synthesised ambient bed, no dialogue — captions in three languages.

A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.

What is inside this book?

Five pages from Accounting Notes laid out as cards: a working page, a section divider, a plain notes page, a conversion table, and the pen test page. — Five pages rendered straight from the print file: a working page, a section divider, the plain notes section, a conversion table, and the pen-test leaf at the back. No ledger grid printed across every page, because a working figure rarely arrives in the same shape twice.

Specification card listing the Accounting Notes contents: one hundred and twenty working pages, eleven notes pages, one hundred and forty pages total, A5 trim, seven signatures of twenty. — One hundred and twenty pages for calculation and note-taking, not ruled into a fixed ledger table the way a cash book is, so the same page can carry a reconciliation, a client's numbers, or a page of meeting notes. Eleven pages of plain notes follow. Nine pages of reference and furniture close the book, one hundred and forty pages total, A5, seven signatures of twenty.

Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book. — Accounting Notes — Conversion tables

Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival. — Accounting Notes — Emergency numbers

One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back. — Accounting Notes — This book belongs to

A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language. — Accounting Notes — Point at this

Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart. — Accounting Notes — World map

The PDF of this book.

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Questions

Is it ruled into ledger columns?

No. It is built for calculation and note-taking, so the same page can hold a reconciliation, a client's figures, or meeting notes.

How big is it?

A5, 148 x 210 mm, one hundred and forty pages, 8.01 mm across the spine.

Is it dated?

No. Start it on whichever page the next client sits down.

How is it different from the Cash Book?

The Cash Book is ruled lined for a running ledger: date, particulars, receipts, payments, balance. This one has no fixed columns, and is built for working a figure out rather than logging one.