# Continuity Accounting
**Domain:** Institutional records / Provenance
**Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node
**Maturity:** Developed
**Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]]
## Definition
**Continuity accounting** records how identity, authority, assets, credentials, and obligations persist or transfer across time and organizational change.
## Significance
It prevents a renamed platform, successor entity, or rotated key from being treated as either automatically identical or wholly unrelated.
## Sources
- [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]
- [Primary or institutional source](https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/)
## Routes
[[wiki/Actor Continuity|Actor Continuity]] · [[wiki/Persistent Ledger History|Persistent Ledger History]] · [[wiki/Cryptographic Succession|Cryptographic Succession]] · [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]