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Bookkeeping 'Recording of financial transactions'

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Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions , and is part of the process of accounting in business. Transactions include purchases, sales, receipts and payments by an individual person or an organization/corporation. There are several standard methods of bookkeeping, including the single-entry and double-entry bookkeeping systems. While these may be viewed as "real" bookkeeping, any process for recording financial transactions is a bookkeeping process. Bookkeeping is the work of a bookkeeper (or book-keeper), who records the day-to-day financial transactions of a business. They usually write the daybooks (which contain records of sales, purchases, receipts, and payments), and document each financial transaction, whether cash or credit, into the correct daybook—that is, petty cash book, suppliers ledger, customer ledger, etc.—and the general ledger. Thereafter, an accountant can create financial reports from the information recorded by the bookkeeper. Bookkeeping re...

Ledger - Accounting Ledger Book

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A ledger is the principal book or computer file for recording and totaling economic transactions measured in terms of a monetary unit of account by account type, with debits and credits in separate columns and a beginning monetary balance and ending monetary balance for each account. The ledger is a permanent summary of all amounts entered in supporting journals which list individual transactions by date. Every transaction flows from a journal to one or more ledgers. A company's financial statements are generated from summary totals in the ledgers. Ledgers include: Sales ledger, records accounts receivable. This ledger consists of the financial transactions made by customers to the company. Purchase ledger records money spent for purchasing by the company.  General ledger representing the five main account types: assets, liabilities, income, expenses, and capital. For every debit recorded in a ledger, there must be a corresponding credit so that the debits equal the cred...