Fundamental Accounting Principles
Fundamental Accounting Principles
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Author: Wild
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Concept Introduction:

Journals:

Journals are prepared to record business transactions. There are two types of journals:

  1. 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
  2. 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 journal entries for the given purchase and sales transactions.

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