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Accountancy · Ch 4 — Recording of Transactions - II

Terms Introduced in the Chapter

Terms Introduced in the Chapter

The key terms introduced in this chapter, with a short meanin …

DefinitionPosting

The process of transferring the entries recorded in the journal or the subsidiary books to the individual acc …

DefinitionDay books

Another name for the subsidiary books (special journals) in which transactions of a repetitive nature are first recorded day by day befo …

DefinitionCash book

A subsidiary book that records all cash and bank receipts and payments; it serves both as a journal of original entry and as the ledger account for cash and bank, so a separate cash/bank ac …

DefinitionPetty Cash book

A book maintained by the petty cashier to record small, routine payments (postage, cartage, refreshments, etc.), usually und …

DefinitionPurchase (Journal) book

A subsidiary book in which only the credit purchases of goods dealt in by the business are recorded, at the invoice value …

DefinitionPurchases return (Journal) Book

A subsidiary book that records goods returned to suppliers that had been bought on credit; the source documen …

DefinitionSales (Journal) Book

A subsidiary book in which only the credit sales of goods dealt in by the business are recorded, at the invoice value n …

DefinitionSales return (Journal) Book

A subsidiary book that records goods returned by customers that had been sold on credit; the source document …

DefinitionBalancing of Accounts

Totalling both sides of a ledger account, finding the difference, and writing it on the shorter side as 'Balance c/d' so the two sides are equal; the balance is carried to the next period as 'Balance b/d'. Nomi …