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How do you record journal entries in ledger?

How do you record journal entries in ledger?
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    1. ShreyaSharma none
      2022-08-24T20:40:37+00:00Added an answer on August 24, 2022 at 8:40 pm
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      Journal entries in the ledger

      What is a Journal Entry?

      Journal entry is a form of bookkeeping. All the economic or non-economic transactions in the business are recorded in the journal entries showing a company’s debit or credit balances. It is a double-entry accounting method and requires at least two accounts or more in a transaction.

      The journal entry helps to identify the transactions. We use journals to get a running list of business transactions. Each journal entry provides this specific information about a transaction:

      • Date of the transaction.
      • Accounts involved in it.
      • Payer, payee, receiver, etc.
      • Account name.
      • Debit and credit of money.

       

      General Ledger 

      After the transactions are recorded in the journal, they are posted in the principal book called ‘Ledger’. A ledger account contains information about a specific account. It contains the opening balance as well as the closing balances of an account. It summarizes the business transactions.

      Transferring the entries from journals to respective ledger accounts is called ledger posting or posting to the ledger accounts. Balancing of ledgers is carried out to find differences at the year’s end, it means finding the difference between the debit and credit amounts of a particular account.

       

      For instance,

      Suppose goods were bought for cash. While passing the journal entry, we’ll be debiting the purchases a/c and crediting the cash a/c by stating it as, ‘To Cash A/c’.

      Now, this entry will be affecting both the purchases account and the cash account. In the cash account, we’ll be debiting purchases. Whereas in the purchases account, we’ll be crediting the cash. That’s how it works in the double-entry bookkeeping system of accounting.

       

      Example

      Mr. Tony Stark started the business with cash of $100,000. He bought furniture for business for $15,000. He further purchased goods for $75,000. He hired an employee and paid him a salary of $5,000.

      Now, we’ll be journalizing the transactions and posting them into the ledger accounts.

      Journal Entries

      Recording into Ledger Account

      Cash A/c

      Capital A/c

      Furniture A/c

      Purchases A/c

      Salary A/c

      Note: The balance b/d is not applicable as this is the business’ commencement year.

       

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