Debit short term loan
Credit bank
Journal entry is required to record business transaction in books of accounts and without journal entry no business transaction can be recorded in books.
Journal entry is made as soon as when any business transaction occur in business.
For the recording of journal entry, it is mandatory to be business transaction occurred already otherwise no journal entry can be made prior to occurrence of business transaction.
Compound journal entry is that entry which records more than one business transaction in one single journal entry.
recording of business transaction in chronological order is a journal entry
Journal entry is the basic transaction to record the business transaction and without journal entry no record can be maintained.
No journal entry required when PO is generated as no business transaction has occurred.
A journal records what you're findings are
When recording done as journal entry any business transaction is recorded in books of accounts and become part of business books of accounts.
"Journal" is called as book of original entry because at the occurance of any business transaction, entry is first of all recorded in journal.
Journal entry for opening a bank account
No, These two are different. Journal vochar is document through which journal Entries are made in books of accounts