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Balance Sheet Definition: In financial accounting, “Balance sheet is a financial statement summary report of an assets, liabilities and equity capital of an individual or a company or an organization at a specific given time”. This provides adequate information to investors, shareholders or a group about the company’s financial strength at given point of time. …

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Profit and Loss Statement Definition: Under financial accounting, “profit and loss account, statement of revenue or loss, financial performance statement, operating statement, earnings statement, statement of profit and loss, P&L statement, Income statement all this terms refers to Profit and Loss statement of the financial reports”. This statement shows the revenue and expenditures of a business …

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Trial Balance Definition: In Accounting, Trial balance is a consolidated list of all the general ledger accounts of the business. Debit balances of ledger accounts will be listed across debit column of trial balance. Whereas Credit balances of ledger accounts will be listed across credit column of trial balance. Information listed on this statement report is …

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General Ledger Definition: In a financial accounting, super set of accounts that summarize records of transactions occurred during a specified period for a business or an organization is called as General Ledger Account. All the credit and debit balances of ledger account should be equal. This information is then used to prepare financial statement of …

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