Journal entry

A journal entry is the act of keeping or making records of any transactions either economic or non-economic.

Transactions are listed in an accounting journal that shows a company's debit and credit balances. The journal entry can consist of several recordings, each of which is either a debit or a credit. The total of the debits must equal the total of the credits, or the journal entry is considered unbalanced.

Journal entries can record unique items or recurring items such as depreciation or bond amortization. In accounting software, journal entries are usually entered using a separate module from accounts payable, which typically has its own subledger, that indirectly affects the general ledger. As a result, journal entries directly change the account balances on the general ledger. A properly documented journal entry consists of the correct date, amount(s) that will be debited, amount that will be credited, narration of the transaction, and unique reference number (i.e. check number).[1]

We can better understand about the journal entries through examples. In real business to record the transactions and events and recurring items, we take help of accounting example. For example, ABC company has sold 1 laptop of $ 300 in a day on cash. It is simple journal entries cash account debit $ 300 and sales of Laptop account credit $ 100 and rules have followed what comes in business debit and revenue of business must credit. If the Accountant of DEF company has to pass the journal entries of sale of Fruits, above example helps. He only focus to change name of item, measure unit of quantity and date. Rest fundamental rules of journal entries will same. If learning the rules of journal entries is the skin of anybody, to learn journal entries example is its blood to get energy all time in the body. [2]