Accounting

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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In accounting system, Journal entry consists of transactions which are either a credit or debit transactions. Total of debit and credit journal entry transactions are unbalanced.  Journal entry can record unique or recurring transactions. Therefore, Journal entry transactions directly affect the balances of general ledger accounts. “Journal entry is a method of posting transactions into …

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Accounting process to some extend is also referred as accounting cycle. Traditional accounting methods are been changed in today’s accounting software. But still process of accounting and accounting cycle remains the same irrespective of traditional or modern accounting methods. In this topic we will initially understand what is accounting cycle followed by the three steps …

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