the business the picture they need of where the company’s
money is.
Accountants developed bookkeeping procedures as a way
to organize records, to classify the many transactions that take
place. Bookkeeping puts related transactions together into
groups so that their impact on the accounting equation can be
recorded and analyzed.
When we put several transactions together into one account,
we’re creating a
ledger. Each account has a ledger that lists all
its transactions. Every
transaction is entered
twice, in two ledgers, once
as a credit and once as a
debit. The individual lines
in a ledger are called
entries. In a manual sys-
tem, each entry is first put
on a master page called
the
journal, or
book of first
entry, and then copied to
the appropriate individual
account pages. As a result,
the books stay in balance; the total of all credits equals the total
of all debits.
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