# `Bookk.AccountHead`
[🔗](https://github.com/rwillians/bookk/blob/v1.0.0/lib/bookk/account_head.ex#L1)

An Account head is a struct contained all the values necessary to
either fetch or create a `Bookk.Account` from/into a `Bookk.Ledger`.

## Related

- `Bookk.AccountClass`;
- `Bookk.Account`;
- `Bookk.Ledger`;
- `Bookk.Operations`.

# `t`

```elixir
@type t() :: %Bookk.AccountHead{
  class: Bookk.AccountClass.t(),
  meta: map(),
  name: String.t()
}
```

The struct that describes an account head.

## Fields

An account head is composed of:
- `name`: the accounts name (unique within a ledger);
- `class`: a `Bookk.AccountClass` struct that describes the class to
  which the account belongs;
- `meta`: a map of metadata for whatever information you find useful
  to hold there for when you need to fetch, create or "hydrate" a
  persisted account.

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