You record payments from your customers as you receive them (for example, through your till) and total the takings daily.

An internal investigation has found, among other things, that executives improperly recorded payments from suppliers ahead of schedule.

Some locations now allow payment by mobile phone (to remotely record payments for subsequent checking and enforcement).

Another similar strategy is applied when remittances are received by means of cheques, where cheques are split up to record payments.

The city government developed a database system that now contains around 400,000 property units with capability to record payments.

According to a filing with the commission, A.& P. said it had improperly recorded vendor allowances, or payments from manufacturers for promotions and shelf space.

And officials are said to have been destroying documents recording off-the-book payments authorised by a phone call from the president's palace.

Ancient Mesopotamians commonly used clay tablets to record payments, wages, and tax records.

As treasurer, Maximo Mendoza has been charged with collecting $25 each week from the members; he records payments in a spiral-bound book.

Corn prices that fell below $2 a bushel in recent years led to record payments to farmers: $4.6 billion last year and $2.9 billion in 2004.