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Chapter 2 of 14 • In quality control

The Recording Process

How a business writes down what it does: debits and credits, journals, ledgers, and the trial balance that checks the work.

15
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6
Things you can do

By the end of this chapter

All 15 games

Listed in teaching order — the sequence a student plays them in. Nothing is hidden: games still being checked are listed, and so are the ones not built yet.

01
Word Ledger — Name That Term
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
In quality control
02
Nature of Accounts
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
In quality control
03
DEALER Visualizer
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
In quality control
04
Double Entry Pro
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05
The Balancer
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
In quality control
06
Ledger Link
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
In quality control
07
Syntax Inspector
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08
T-Account Challenge
In quality control
09
Entry Builder
In quality control
10
Reverse Engineer
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
In quality control
11
Trial Balance Builder
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
In quality control
12
The Living Trial Balance
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
In quality control
13
Statement Evolution: From Trial Balance to Statements
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
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14
Error Detective
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
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15
Cycle Challenge
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
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The first nine games of this chapter are free — slots 01 to 09, up to and including Entry Builder, so a student can get all the way through on their own before anything is paid for. No sign-up, no email address.

Playable now means the game is finished, has been tested by hand on real phones, and you can open the current version on this website today. Ready - in final checks means it has passed testing on phones and is waiting on its last checks before we publish it here. In quality control means the game is built and working, and is being checked by hand - language, phone layout, and whether a student could pass it by guessing. In build means it is designed but not written yet. These labels are worked out from our own test records, not set by hand, so a game cannot be shown as further along than the evidence supports.

Accounting Theory

An optional module on the thinking behind the rules: why accounting exists and what makes its information useful. A separate set of 8 games you can include or leave out. It is not part of the 14 chapters and nothing later depends on it.

01
Framework HQ — The Big Picture Tour
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
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02
Two Lenses — Does It Matter? Is It True?
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
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03
Pop the Quality
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
In quality control
04
Would It Change the Decision?
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
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05
Does It Qualify?
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
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06
Earn It, Match It, Tell It
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
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07
Worth the Trouble?
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
In quality control
08
Theory Championship
Built and working. Being checked by hand.
In quality control

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