An electronic ledger is more specific than an electronic spreadsheet. With electronic ledgers and things like accountancy, payroll and stock control applications, they are all designed with a very specific task in mind. So a payroll package is no use for stock control for example. In each of them some of the work is already done for you and you tailor them to your needs. Things are automated so you can concentrate on the data more and leave a lot of the processing to the applications.
An electronic ledger is limited to what it can do, as is a stock control, payroll and accounting package. An electronic spreadsheet starts off as being completely blank, leaving you a lot of work to do in order to get it doing what you want. However, you can use it to do a much wider range of tasks than any of the others, which is the big advantage. It would take a lot of work, but you can use an electronic spreadsheet to do things like ledgers, accounts, payroll and stock control.
Yes.
It is like a ledger.
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It is called a spreadsheet or a worksheet.
General ledger is just another name given to nominal ledger. Nominal ledger is a ledger that maintains impersonal accounts like sale , purchase, capital etc.
think of it as a paper version of an excel spreadsheet
Day book is the book which we use to record day today record,but Ledger is a book in which we keep classified data
The available balance refers to the cash that can be withdrawn from the given account. The ledger balance on the other hand refers to the amount that is available in the account.
A general ledger shows complete financial transactions over the life of a company. The trial balance just shows debits and credits of the business.
Excel is a computerised spreadsheet, and based on the paper-based worksheet, so it is capable of doing calculations that can be done on paper, like you would in a ledger. It automates the process.
A journal records individual transactions in chronological order, while a ledger is a summary of all transactions grouped by accounts. The journal is the first step in the accounting process, whereas the ledger organizes and classifies the information from the journal. In essence, the journal is like a diary, and the ledger is like a filing cabinet.
An accounting ledger can be produced using any decent spreadsheet software. Microsoft Excel is the one many people use although these are more expensive software packages that can be used.