Concept Introduction:
Journals:
Journals are prepared to record business transactions. There are two types of journals:
- Special Journals:
Special journals record the recurring business tractions like sales, purchase, cash receipts and payments. Some special journals are as follows:
- Sales journal
- Sales Return Journal
- Purchase journal
- Purchase return journal
- Cash receipts journal
- Cash payment journal
- General Journal:
All the business transactions which do not belong to special journals are recorded using General journal.
Subsidiary Ledger:
A Subsidiary Ledger is prepared for the one account of the general ledger. There may be several subsidiary ledgers of one general ledger.
General ledger:
A general ledger contains the summarized information taken from its subsidiary ledgers.
The relation between subsidiary ledger and control accounts. And prepare

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