What dose Ledger Accounting mean?
General Ledger is a part of the Accounting Cycle. It is where all accounting transactions are posted in a double entry system using debits (on the left) and credits (on the right) for each transaction. An additional column to the far right can keep a running total of activity in the account, similar to your checkbook. The general ledger provides data for the Balance Sheet and either the Single-Step Income Statement or the Multi-Step Income Statement (depending on which one the company prepares.) The ledger can be electronic or physical depending on whether you are using computer software or a manual system. Most companies use a computerized version of the general ledger, allowing for greater ease of entry and reporting. All accounts in the chart of accounts are grouped in one of five categories: Assets, Liabilities, Owner’s Equity, Revenue, and Expenses. The general ledger is organized according to the chart of accounts, with a separate register, file, page, or card for each account.
The general ledger is the core of your company’s financial records. These constitute the central “books” of your system, and every transaction flows through the general ledger. These records remain as a permanent track of the history of all financial transactions since day one of the life of your company. Subledgers and the General Ledger Your accounting system will have a number of subsidiary ledgers (called subledgers) for items such as cash, accounts receivable, and accounts payable. All the entries that are entered (called posted) to these subledgers will transact through the general ledger account. For example, when a credit sale posted in the account receivable subledger turns into cash due to a payment, the transaction will be posted to the general ledger and the two (cash and accounts receivable) subledgers as well. There are times when items will go directly to the general ledger without any subledger posting. These are primarily capital financial transactions that have no ope
