subsidiary ledger

1. 1.

   details of an account supporting the amount stated in the general ledger

   Broaderledger

Questions about subsidiary ledger

What does subsidiary ledger mean?

subsidiary ledger means "details of an account supporting the amount stated in the general ledger".

Is subsidiary ledger a common word?

subsidiary ledger is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.