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      "engine": "claude",
      "producedAt": "2026-10-05T16:30:00Z",
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      ]
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      "SOC.ECO"
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    "definition": "The difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account, such as a bank balance, an account balance carried forward, or at national level the balance of trade.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Knowing what is owed or held and tracking trade positions.",
    "affordances": [
      "compute an account balance",
      "reconcile balances",
      "interpret trade balance statistics",
      "understand carry-forward balances"
    ],
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      "Difference between credits and debits",
      "Positive or negative",
      "Carried between periods",
      "Trade balance is a macro sense"
    ],
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      "Carried-forward balances",
      "Trade balance in national statistics"
    ],
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      "bank account balances",
      "ledger balances",
      "carry-forward balances",
      "balance of trade",
      "balance of payments components"
    ],
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      {
        "relation": "is a kind of",
        "target": "amount of money",
        "why": "category"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is shown on",
        "target": "account statement",
        "why": "document"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
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        "why": "record"
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      {
        "relation": "is confused with",
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      }
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      "Accounting standards",
      "IMF Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6)"
    ],
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      "Pending transactions not reflected",
      "Misreading trade deficits as losses",
      "Personal financial advice by an agent"
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      "may": [
        "Report an account balance to the account holder or someone they authorized.",
        "Reconcile balances and flag discrepancies for the bookkeeper."
      ],
      "must_not": [
        "Reveal a person's balance to anyone not authorized to see it.",
        "Alter a recorded balance or post entries to make it look different from what it is.",
        "Move funds to change a balance without the holder's instruction.",
        "Present a balance figure without its date and currency."
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "Correcting a balance in an official ledger or bank record.",
        "Acting on an unexplained balance that may indicate fraud."
      ]
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      "considerations": [
        "Balances reveal a person's or firm's financial position and must stay private.",
        "Falsified balances deceive creditors, investors and tax authorities."
      ],
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        "Account holders",
        "Creditors and investors",
        "Auditors"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
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        "Bank and accounting ledgers"
      ]
    }
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    },
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      "title": "Wiktionary: balance",
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      "url_status": "live",
      "checked_by": "http 200"
    }
  ],
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        "id": "account",
        "name": "Account",
        "description": "Which balance.",
        "rationale": "Account type matters.",
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          {
            "id": "type",
            "name": "Type",
            "description": "Bank, ledger, trade.",
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                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which kind of balance is meant?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "For which account and date?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "calculation",
            "name": "Calculation",
            "description": "Credits minus debits.",
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              {
                "id": "calculation-finding",
                "name": "Calculation",
                "description": "Calculation.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How is the balance calculated?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Does it include pending items?",
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                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "reconciliation",
        "name": "Reconciliation",
        "description": "Checking.",
        "rationale": "Balances must agree.",
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                  {
                    "text": "Does the balance agree with independent records?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What explains differences?",
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                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
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              {
                "id": "carry-forward-finding",
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                "description": "Carry-forward.",
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                  {
                    "text": "Was the balance carried forward correctly?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "From which period?",
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                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "trade",
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        "description": "National balance.",
        "rationale": "Trade balance needs context.",
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          {
            "id": "figures",
            "name": "Figures",
            "description": "Statistics.",
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              {
                "id": "figures-finding",
                "name": "Figures",
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                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What is the trade balance, according to the statistical office?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Goods, services or both?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
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            "id": "interpretation",
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            "description": "Meaning.",
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              {
                "id": "interpretation-finding",
                "name": "Interpretation",
                "description": "Interpretation.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What does a deficit or surplus mean in context?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Are views attributed?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
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      {
        "id": "limits",
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        "description": "Advice and senses.",
        "rationale": "Boundaries apply.",
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            "id": "advice",
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                "id": "advice-finding",
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                "description": "Advice limit.",
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                  {
                    "text": "Is the user asking what to do about their own balance?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Where can free money advice be found?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
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            "id": "senses",
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            "description": "Equilibrium.",
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              {
                "id": "senses-finding",
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                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is physical balance or a weighing balance meant?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
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    "Should trade balance be a separate entry?",
    "How should reconciliation guidance be linked?",
    "How should other senses be split off?"
  ],
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    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
  }
}