Ledger vs Payroll - What's the difference?
ledger | payroll |
A book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records.
(accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
(construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to the building.
A large flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
The total sum of money paid to employees.
(computing) The series of accounting transactions that ensure that employees are paid correctly, and that all taxes etc are properly deducted; the department in a company responsible for it.
(euphemistic) Bribes paid to people
To place on a payroll.
* 1985 , The Code of Federal regulations of the United States of America (page 37)
As nouns the difference between ledger and payroll
is that ledger is a book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records while payroll is a list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.As a verb payroll is
to place on a payroll.ledger
English
(wikipedia ledger)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* ledger bait * ledger board * (l) * ledger wallAnagrams
*See also
* (wikipedia "ledger") *payroll
English
Noun
(en noun)- 1957': ''I know that the deal started with the boys in Santiago, because they've been on the d'Anconia '''pay roll for centuries — well, no, 'pay roll' is an honorable word, it would be more exact to say that d'Anconia Copper has been paying them protection money for centuries — isn't that what your gangsters call it?'' - Francisco dAnconia, ''.
- 1972': ''We can spread a rumor this cop was dirty. Look, Tom, we have newspaper people on the '''payroll , don't we? - Michael Corleone, .
Verb
(en verb)- Grantees may elect to payroll the enrollees through their own payroll system if the payroll system is consistent with regulations contained herein.