General ledger
A "top level" ledger. In small companies or relatively simple accounting systems, all accounts may be listed and maintained in a single ledger. Larger and more complex situations may have thousands of individual accounts to keep track of, however, and in such cases separate groups of accounts are kept in different subsidiary ledgers. A top level general ledger would then record the summary or total action within each subsidiary ledger as a single line entry.
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