general ledger account

  • 1General ledger — Accountancy Key concepts Accountant · Accounting period · Bookkeeping · Cash and accrual basis · Cash flow management · Chart of accounts  …

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  • 2general ledger — GL A series of *accounts used as the foundation for preparation of *financial statements. The general ledger contains accounts for *assets, liabilities, *equity, *revenue, and *expenditure, and the accounts are traditionally analyzed into a… …

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  • 3general ledger — noun the ledger that contains all of the financial accounts of a business; contains offsetting debit and credit accounts (including control accounts) • Hypernyms: ↑ledger, ↑leger, ↑account book, ↑book of account, ↑book • Part Meronyms: ↑control… …

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  • 4general ledger — An accounting term used to describe the book or other instrument which summarizes an entity s financial accounts. The general ledger is the source from which the entity s trial balance and financial statements are prepared. The general ledger… …

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  • 5general ledger — An accounting term used to describe the book or other instrument which summarizes an entity s financial accounts. The general ledger is the source from which the entity s trial balance and financial statements are prepared. The general ledger… …

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  • 6Oracle General Ledger — The Oracle General Ledger module within Oracle Financials is an integrated part of the ERP package of Oracle applications. It is a financial management solution within E business suite for entering and reporting on the financial data of large… …

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  • 7account identifier code — (AIC)  A three digit code that assigns financial transactions to the proper account on the general ledger. Each AIC is assigned a corresponding general ledger …

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  • 8account book — noun a record in which commercial accounts are recorded they got a subpoena to examine our books • Syn: ↑ledger, ↑leger, ↑book of account, ↑book • Hypernyms: ↑record • Hyponyms …

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  • 9Ledger — A ledger or lieger (from the English dialect forms liggen or leggen , to lie or lay; in sense adapted from the Dutch substantive logger ), is the principal book for recording transactions. Originally, the term referred to a large volume of… …

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  • 10ledger — /lejsr/ A book of accounts, often referred to as a general ledger, in which a business records transactions; there being two parallel columns in each account, one for the debit entries, the other for the credits. Into this book are posted the… …

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