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Current balance

In accounting, current balance means posted, including uncleared items.

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Not a rule

Bookkeeping convention — not codified. US GAAP governs recognition, measurement and presentation — not the mechanics a bookkeeper uses to get there. Anyone citing a standard for this word is citing the wrong thing.

Every citation in this system, with the text we read and the date we checked it, is in US GAAP and where these rules come from.

Current balance, in use

Quoted from the document that use the word — what it does to an interface, in the spec's own sentence.

What it is not called

Each of these is a real word for a different thing. Using it here is what makes a product read as though it was built by someone who has not done the work.

  • actual balance

Components that render this

The concept is not documentation-only. These are the components that name it in their specification, grouped and stated exactly as the catalog states them.

Also in Cash

Defined in Lexicon. This page is generated from that document, so the two cannot disagree.

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