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Accounting is the process of recording financial transactions pertaining to a business. The accounting process includes summarizing, analyzing, and reporting these transactions to oversight agencies, regulators, and tax collection entities.Jan 28

An accounting journal is a detailed account of all the financial transactions of a business. It’s also known as the book of original entry as it’s the first place where transactions are recorded. The entries in an accounting journal are used to create the general ledger which is then used to create the financial statements of a business.

Before computerized bookkeeping and accounting, the transactions were entered manually into a journal and then posted to the general ledger. Apart from the general journal, accountants maintained various other journals including purchases and sales journal, cash receipts journal and cash disbursements journal. With accounting software, today you’re likely to find only a general journal in which adjusting entries and unique financial transactions are entered.