Value Accounting
The discipline of accounting for the value you create the way money is accounted for: naming it, measuring it, and keeping an honest book of it.
It is not traditional accounting — there is no quarterly report to shareholders and no bending the numbers to look good. Value is the first thing you count; money is one Value Wake it leaves behind, counted later.
- Status
- canonical
- Cite
- valuecreationprotocol.com/value-accounting
- Source
- Generated from the canonical reference and checked against it on every build
Expected
Someone wrote down what one person is expected to receive, before it happens.
Has it run?
No.
No expectation counts as value.
Expected
Someone wrote down what one person is expected to receive, before it happens.
Has it run?
No.
No expectation counts as value.
Witnessed
Somebody saw the value land and wrote it down.
Has it run?
Yes.
Witnessed
Somebody saw the value land and wrote it down.
Has it run?
Yes.
Shown
The claim has been put in front of the person it is about.
Has it run?
No. Designed, not yet run.
Shown
The claim has been put in front of the person it is about.
Has it run?
No. Designed, not yet run.
Confirmed
The receiver, or the hand the governance book names, says it landed. Never the doer.
Has it run?
Yes.
Confirmed
The receiver, or the hand the governance book names, says it landed. Never the doer.
Has it run?
Yes.
Settled
The month is closed.
Has it run?
No. Designed, not yet run.
Settled
The month is closed.
Has it run?
No. Designed, not yet run.
The stages are outcome-states, never targets.
Protocol home
VCP is originated and canonically implemented by Value-First Team. Anyone may read, cite, and operate the protocol independently of firm engagement.