general journal

GENERAL JOURNAL

General journal is the journal in which we made all our adjusting entries and any expense that is paid in current month or specific time period that is record in the General Journal.

For making entry in the General Journal, first open the software and then from the task bar select the general journal and the window will be as following

On the top of the window there is date select the date at which we pay expense and then in the bottom of the page there are five columns that are as following

·        GL Account

·        Description

·        Debit

·        Credit

In the first column of the GL account there is accounts id that we gave in the charts of accounts

In the next column there is description about the expense that we going to paid

Then the next column is debit in this we enter the amount from which that specific account is debited

In the next column there is credit that means the amount from which account is credited

In the above mention window there is an example of raw material purchases and the data is put as above mention example after adding data the data will be save from the save option of the main bar