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The Process of Accounting
The Process of Accounting
3. CLOSING ENTRIES
A closing entry is a journal entry made at the end of accounting periods that
involves shifting data from temporary accounts on the Income Statement to
permanent accounts on the Balance Sheet.
4. TRIAL BALANCE
A trial balance is a worksheet with two columns, one for debits and one for
credits, that ensures a company’s bookkeeping is mathematically correct.
5. GENERAL LEDGER
A general ledger represents the record-keeping system for a company’s financial
data, with debit and credit account records validated by a trial balance
6. GENERAL JOURNAL
The general journal is the book that entity firstly records all of the daily
financial transactions in it. It is also called a book of original entries
because all of the transactions are records in this book before moving to
other books.