But for Port, the ledger doesn't lie: they've dropped four of their past five - and along with it, in all likelihood, the double chance.
On the other side of the ledger, however, yet another written-off car brought the bill for replacements alone to £600,000.
Other critics on the conservative side of the ledger will oppose the creep of the "rights agenda".
They are bowled over by the technology that underpins the currency, a decentralised, immutable ledger called a "blockchain" that allows people to transact business without the intermediation of a trusted third party.Banks, which often play just such a third-party role, are watching all these developments closely.
Add the exploits of sovereign-wealth funds to the ledger, and it begins to look as if liberal capitalism is in wholesale retreat: New York's Chrysler Building (or 90% of it anyway) has fallen to Abu Dhabi and Manchester City football club to Qatar.
It is not as secure and anonymous as it seems; the "mining" system that both increases the Bitcoin supply and ensures the integrity of the currency has led to an unsustainable computational arms-race; and the distributed-ledger system is becoming unwieldy.
He also admitted to using a tax amnesty last year to declare €10m of hidden money.The 14-page ledger, published by El País, is said by some handwriting experts to be in Mr Bárcenas's hand.
At a typical banquet guests line up to give cash at a reception table, where someone records the amount and the name of the guest in the family's gift ledger.
This was the biggest stain on Goldman's ledger, accounting for $1.4 billion of mark-to-market losses.
When lessons begin at eight, she inspects a well-thumbed ledger that records who has paid school fees.
By equating tax reform with a short-term giveaway, Mr Bush has made his overhaul of the tax system hopelessly one-sided: it is all tax cuts, with no countervailing reforms on the other side of the ledger, such as reorganising Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.
