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Golden Rules of Accounting- Rules of Debit and Credit Explained

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Hey Guys, so today we will study the most important and interesting topic of  Accounts. Golden Rules of Accounting- Rules of Debit and Credit which is the base of accounts and the language of accounts. Under double entry system of Book keeping each transactions has two aspects. One is called debit and another is credit where, debit records incoming or receiving aspect and credit records outgoing or giving aspect. Table Of Contents Meaning of an Account Account is a summarised record of transactions at one place related to the particular head. Account is prepared for sort and store the transactions. Each individual account is stored in the general ledger and used to prepare the financial statements at the end of the accounting period. An Account shows specific assets, liability, revenues, assets, equity.  An Account is divided into two parts which is known as Debit and Credit, Debit and Credit are two opposing terms.  Dr . is used for Debit and  Cr.  stands for Credit,

Journals and Ledgers Explained

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In this tutorial we get to know about Journals and Ledgers which is a very important part of accounting. We prepare Journals and Ledgers to keep track of our company's transactions. Recording of transactions in a systematic manner comes under the process of Bookkeeping. So, lets find out what are these topics Journals and Ledgers meant to be. Table Of Contents Meaning of Journal Under the system of Double Entry Bookkeeping transactions are primarily recorded in the Journal, Journal is the primary book of accounts in which transactions are first recorded in the books of accounts in a chronological order(dates as they occur). In other words, a journal is a detailed account which records all the financial transactions of a business in a chronological order, it is a book of original entry in which transactions are written before they are posted in a ledger. Journal helps to review the effect of the transaction on the business which is shown for each trans