What is a ledger? What are the types of ledger accounts?

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A ledger is used to record transactions of balance sheet and income statements. A general ledger accounts for all business-related transactions like cash, bank, debtor, creditors, investments, and private ledger accounts for employee salaries, wages, and capitals of partners.

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Q. State whether the following statements are ‘True or False”.

1) Ledger is known as the book of original entry.
2) Narration is not necessary in ledger.
3) All accounts are closed down at the end of the accounting year.
4) Recording of a transaction in Journal is called posting.
5) Balance of personal account is brought down for the next year.
6) All transactions are recorded directly in ledger.
7) Ledger Folio and index is necessary for ledger.
8) Ledger posting is not necessary for Journal Proper.
9) Ledger Folio is recorded in Journal.
10) Ledger posting is made before passing Journal entry.

Q. Answer in one Sentence only.

From which books of accounts ledger posting is made in ledger?

Write the word, term, phrase, Which can substitute each of the following statement.

1) Transfer of a Journal entry from Journal to ledger.
2) Total of Debit side of an A/c is more than total of Credit side of an A/c.
3) Page number of ledger.
4) A book of an account in which all ledger accounts are maintained.
5) Left hand side of an account.
6) Right hand side of an account.
7) Types of accounts which are not balanced but transferred to Trading A/c or Profit & Loss A/c.
8) Bound book of accounts.
9) An account where total of Purchases Book is posted.
10) A statement of accounts prepared from the balances of ledger account.

Give one word, term or phrase for the following statement:

1) A List of Debit Balances and Credit balances in the ledger.
2) A Statement prepared to provide the base for preparing the final accounts.
3) A statement is prepared without balancing the ledger account.
4) Mention the side where goodwill A/c is appeared in the Trial Balance.
5) A List of both Ledger balances which is prepared after the closing of ledger Accounts.

Q. From which books of accounts Ledger posting is made in the Ledger?

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