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General Ledger:
The general ledger records all accounts relevant to depict its assets, liabilities, and equities along with the incomes, expenses, and losses etc in a summarized form. It includes the debit and credit values of all the accounts, of which both, the total of all debit values and credit values should equalize. All the accounts are allotted a unique identifying numbers of the account to be more record friendly for its end users in later stages of preparation of financial statements
A trial balance is a statement where the closing balances of all ledgers accounts are mentioned and the total debit and credit amounts are equalized at the end so as to depict the proper balance of assets and liabilities of the company.
To prepare: T-accounts and Trial balance.

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