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There are several different accounts that are used in the general ledger. Some of these accounts include cash, accounts receivable, inventory, notes payable, Accounts Payable, and customer deposits.
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An account in a general ledger that summarizes all accounts in a subsidiary ledger?
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What is an account in a general ledger that summarizes all accounts in a subsidiary ledger?
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Four main ledgers for bookkeeping in business?
The General Ledger The Account receivable Ledger The Accounts payable Ledger
What book is the drawings account kept?
general ledger
How are accounts General ledger numbered?
by account classification
How is subsidiary ledger different to the general ledger?
A subsidiary ledger is a group of similar accounts whose combined balances equal the balance in a specific general ledger account. The general ledger account that summarizes a subsidiary ledger's account balances is called a control account or master account. For example, an accounts receivable subsidiary ledger (customers' subsidiary ledger) includes a separate account for each customer who makes credit purchases. The combined balance of every account in this subsidiary ledger equals the balance of accounts receivable in the general ledger. Posting a debit or credit to a subsidiary ledger account and also to a general ledger control account does not violate the rule that total debit and credit entries must balance because subsidiary ledger accounts are not part of the general ledger; they are supplemental accounts that provide the detail to support the balance in a control account.
What is guest ledger?
A subsidiary ledger related to the accounts receivable general ledger account used by hotels to record the individual account activity of guests who are still at the hotel. The total of the balances in the city ledger plus the total of the balances in the guest ledger should equal the balance in the accounts receivable general ledger account.
Is cash or miscellaneous a general ledger account?
The information below relates to the Cash account in the ledger of Robertson Company.
What is position Account?
a separate account thant eh general ledger
An account in a general ledger that summarizes all accounts in a subsidiary ledger?
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What is an account in a general ledger that summarizes all accounts in a subsidiary ledger?
Income summary
Four main ledgers for bookkeeping in business?
The General Ledger The Account receivable Ledger The Accounts payable Ledger
What you meant by Self balancing system?
when separate ledgers are maintained for trade debtors and trade creditors ,the debit and credit aspect of certain transactions will note appear in the same ledger Eg: in case of credit sales ,the credit aspect (Sales account) will appear in general ledger whereas the debit aspect (personal account of debtor)will appear in debtors ledger .Take another Eg.like cash discount allowed by a creditor .The credit aspect (personal account of the creditor )will appear in creditors ledger .Thus no ledger is self balancing and it is not possible to prepare a separate trial balance for each ledger .Hence in ,in order to make each ledger self -balancing it is necessary that the corresponding debit and credit aspects are fully "adjustment accounts " in each ledger . the adjustment account helps in completing the double entry in each ledger and making it self balancing . The adjustment account opens in various ledgers are; 1 ) general ledger adjustment account(in debtors ledger) 2 ) general ledger adjustment account(in creditors ledger) 3 ) debtors ledger adjustment account (in general ledger) 4 ) creditors ledger adjustment account (in general ledger)
How are accounts General ledger numbered?
by account classification
What book is the drawings account kept?
general ledger
Where does the sum of customers' unpaid balances that is compared to the general ledger balance comes from?
The sum of customers unpaid balance or balance of account receivables in the General Ledger usually comes from a subsidiary ledger which contains an individual account receivable for each customer, the total of these accounts are summed and placed in one single account in the "general ledger".
What is sub ledger?
A General Ledger is the main ledger & all other ledgers like, Account Receivable, Account Payable Ledgers are all sub ledgers. Previously there used to be only one ledger ie the General Ledger, but as Business grew, the number of accounts too multiplied, so, the General Ledger started getting fatter, therefore the need to bring out accounts of similar nature out of General ledger & create sub-ledgers. However, there is a representative account for the subledgers in the General Ledger, which maintains only the balances of the various accounts in the Sub-Ledgers.So, by doing this the Trial Balance can always be created from the General Ledger only.
