General Ledger Examples
A ledger account is a record of all transactions affecting a particular account within the general ledger. The journal shows a debit to the bank of $10,000, so we simply put $10,000 in the debit column of our bank ledger. Notice how the previous entry, the $10,000 to Owners Equity from our earlier transaction, is in the ledger also. This is because the idea of a ledger is to collect ALL transactions related to an account in one place. By the end of the exercise, there will be over ten transactions...