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Cash book is a journal because the transactions are recorded in it for the first time from the source of document and from journal these transactions are posted to the respective account in the ledger. We can say cash book is a ledger also in the sense that it serves the purpose of cash account also.As such cash book is journal as well as ledger, and hence it may call journalised ledger.
Journal entries should be posted in chronological order means as it happens if any transaction happend first it should be recorded first.
Journal is called the book of original entry because it is the first step as per the definition of accounting as well after that transactions are summarized into different ledgers etc.
Primary books of accounts are those books in which business transactions are recorded at first, i.e., journals - special journals as well as general journal.
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general journal.
Cash book is a journal because the transactions are recorded in it for the first time from the source of document and from journal these transactions are posted to the respective account in the ledger. We can say cash book is a ledger also in the sense that it serves the purpose of cash account also.As such cash book is journal as well as ledger, and hence it may call journalised ledger.
Journal entries should be posted in chronological order means as it happens if any transaction happend first it should be recorded first.
Both the Journal and the Ledger are the two most important books used under the Double Entry System of "Book-Keeping". The relationship between the "Journal & Ledger" could be expressed as follows: Journal is the book of first or original entry - since all the Business Transactions are recorded first of all in the "Journal". While the "Ledger" is the book of second entry - since the transactions are "Posted" to the "Ledger" from the Journal. The Journal records tranasactions in "Chronological order", while the Ledger records the transactions in analytical order. The Journal is more reliable than Ledger since it is the book in which the entry is entered first. The process of recording transations is termed as "Journalising" while the process of recording transactions in the Ledger is called as "Posting". Ramesh Kutumbaka
Journal is called the book of original entry because it is the first step as per the definition of accounting as well after that transactions are summarized into different ledgers etc.
Primary books of accounts are those books in which business transactions are recorded at first, i.e., journals - special journals as well as general journal.
The word journal has been derived from the French word "Jour" Jour means day. So, journal means daily. Transactions are recorded daily in journal and hence it has named so. As soon as a transaction takes place its debit and credit aspects are analyse and first of all recorded chronologically (in the order of their occurrence) in a book together with its short description. This book is known as journal. Thus we see that the most important function of journal is to show the relationship between the two accounts connected with a transaction. This facilitates writing of ledger. Since transactions are first of all recorded in journal, so it is called book of original entry or prime entry or primary entry or preliminary entry, or first entry. Farhad Rana (SMUCT)
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.
I always did the ledger first and then went from ledger to journal.
is a book of first entry in which credit sales invoices are recorded
The common practice of recording real estate transactions with an official recorder or registrar began in colonial Massachusetts