Accounting Ledger Paper
A wide description column and ruled money columns with a hairline for the cents, set up for as many columns as the job needs.
A wide description column and ruled money columns with a hairline for the cents, set up for as many columns as the job needs.
Choose Accounting Ledger Paper from the list. It opens with the usual size already set.
Pick the paper size, the grid and the orientation. Customize holds colours, margins and more.
Download the ready PDF, or print straight from the page at 100% scale.
Ledger paper is built around two things: somewhere to write what a line is, and somewhere to write what it cost. The description column takes the left of the sheet, and the rest is divided into equal money columns. Each money column carries a faint rule a fixed distance from its right edge, which is where the cents go — that single line is what stops a column of figures drifting.
Six columns is the classic general-purpose sheet. Thirteen or fourteen columns is a worksheet for a trial balance, and usually wants tabloid paper turned landscape. One or two columns makes a simple cash book.
Handwritten books are still the clearest way to work something out before it goes anywhere near a spreadsheet.
Every sheet here is free, adjustable and prints at exact scale.
Six is the standard general-purpose ledger. Use one or two for a cash book, and twelve to fourteen for a trial balance worksheet — at that width you want tabloid paper in landscape.
It separates the cents from the whole units, so figures line up down the page without a decimal point to aim at. You can turn it off if you are using the columns for something other than money.
Pale green was chosen to reduce eye strain under the bright lighting of accounting offices, and the colour stuck. Set the rule colour to whatever you prefer — the layout is what matters.
