Every signed finding is posted as an entry and keeps it — open, in dispute, collected, or closed with nothing recovered. The total is the sum of the lines above it, and each line still carries the clause its amount was computed from.
Your team posts to the general ledger · Axiom holds no credentials into it
An entry opens when a staff auditor signs the finding. The recoverable amount is already computed in code, and it does not move afterwards.
The entry records that a package went out under your name, on your channel. It records that it was sent — never that it will land.
Marked against the entry that predicted it, so the recovery total is the sum of lines that actually paid rather than lines somebody hoped for.
Stays on the ledger carrying zero. Deleting it would lift the recovery rate and cost you the only thing the ledger is for.
The brace down the money column delivers the total. The staircase in the balance column reaches full width at the same figure. The four states hanging under the rule add back to it — including the one that recovered nothing.
REC-4122 wears a struck seal and recovered nothing. No governing clause resolved in the contract, so no claim was ever built on it — and it is still on the page, at zero, counted in the balance. Striking it off would raise the recovery rate and cost you the only property that made the rate worth quoting.
invoice_ref, customer, category, verdict, billed, paid, short_pay, recoverable, clause_page, clause_quote, arithmetic
Eleven columns, one row per finding, the clause quote and the arithmetic carried in the file. Your accounting team reviews it and posts it. We never write a journal entry.
Each one is a thing the ledger refuses to do. That is what a control is: not a feature you can point at, but a move that is unavailable.
The state moves — open, in dispute, collected, closed — and the line does not. What was flagged in June is still readable in December, at the amount it was flagged for.
No roll-up you have to trust. The running balance is cumulative short-pay, it closes on the control total, and the state figures under the double rule add back to the same number.
The quoted contract language and its page ride in the export beside the amount, so a claim can be argued again six months later without reopening the audit.
A claim that was argued and lost, or that never had a clause to argue from, stays on the page carrying nothing. A ledger you can prune is a ledger nobody can check.
Axiom writes no journal entry and holds no key to the system that does. The recovery ledger is a record of what happened, kept beside your books rather than inside them.
Eleven columns of comma-separated text: the line, the category, the verdict, what was billed and paid, the recoverable amount, the clause page, the quote, the arithmetic.
Every entry keeps the clause it rested on and the arithmetic behind its amount — including the entries that recovered nothing. Approved recoveries leave as a file your accounting team reviews and posts. Axiom holds no credentials into your general ledger and writes no journal entry.