purchase ledger

British

noun

commerce a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due

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The court heard how Freestone worked in the accounts department between 1974 and 2016 rising to the role of purchase ledger supervisor, and had "unfettered access to payments systems".

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The mother-of-three, who had previous convictions for benefit fraud and theft from a previous employer, worked as a purchase ledger for IT provider Ascribe Ltd.

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I'm currently doing an accountancy course and I can't imagine getting the same rush building a purchase ledger.

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