# Transaction

> Transaction — A business event — a payment, a sale, a purchase.

Source: https://lopifi.com/glossary/transaction
Part of: Lopifi — US GAAP books on autopilot, reviewed by a CPA (https://lopifi.com)

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**What is transaction?** In accounting, transaction means a business event — a payment, a sale, a purchase.

## Words this system refuses for it

- activity
- item

- **Category:** Core ledger
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/11-lexicon)
- **Rendered by:** [transaction-table](https://lopifi.com/md/components/transaction-table), [card-transaction-match](https://lopifi.com/md/components/card-transaction-match), [reference](https://lopifi.com/md/components/reference), [transaction-card](https://lopifi.com/md/components/transaction-card), [transaction-detail](https://lopifi.com/md/components/transaction-detail), [transaction-row](https://lopifi.com/md/components/transaction-row), [account-card](https://lopifi.com/md/components/account-card), [bulk-action-bar](https://lopifi.com/md/components/bulk-action-bar), [category-picker](https://lopifi.com/md/components/category-picker), [column-header](https://lopifi.com/md/components/column-header), [command-palette](https://lopifi.com/md/components/command-palette), [empty-state](https://lopifi.com/md/components/empty-state), [error-state](https://lopifi.com/md/components/error-state), [export-menu](https://lopifi.com/md/components/export-menu), [ledger-table](https://lopifi.com/md/components/ledger-table), [table-columns](https://lopifi.com/md/components/table-columns)