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what is the difference between ledger and general ledger

  
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March 30, 2006 04:04:59   #1  
deepak patro        

RE: what is the difference between ledger and general ...

Hello sir

we know the ledger but what is difference between ledger and general ledger.


 
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April 20, 2006 19:29:02   #2  
kk        

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Ledger is a short form for the General Ledger.

However some people prefer to call the sub-ledger as the ledger and the general ledger as 'GL'


 
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April 27, 2006 10:42:30   #3  
anandjp23 Member Since: March 2006   Contribution: 1    

RE: what is the difference between ledger and general ...
Generel Ledger means Those ledgers are using commonly in all types of business organizations. eg: purchases sales printing&stationary etc...Ledger means which ledger is created for the business organization requirement
 
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August 20, 2006 06:37:22   #4  
satya        

RE: what is the difference between ledger and general ...
A Ledger contains the balances of the accounts in individual capacity whereas the General Ledger contains the consolidated balance of all these accounts.
 
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November 04, 2006 01:54:02   #5  
cnubandi        

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A Ledger contains the balances of the accounts in individual capacity whereas the General Ledger is a central repositary it contains the consolidated balance of all the accounts which come from AR AP.....
 
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November 14, 2006 05:07:19   #6  
jaya        

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Good
 
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December 30, 2006 00:12:53   #7  
Devendra Nath        

RE: what is the difference between ledger and general ...
The General Ledger Contains all transaction records including Product Details Rate Qty Cheq No Bank Name Debit Amount Credit and Balances where as Ledger Contains Simple transactions which is included debit credit and Balances..... By devendra Nath
 
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January 05, 2007 15:41:22   #8  
Rajesh Kumar        

RE: what is the difference between ledger and general ...
A Ledger is main and principle form of account.Whereas the General Ledger has all the accounts other than debtors and creditors.It includes properties account incomes & expences capital and drawings.
 
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April 12, 2007 03:47:48   #9  
Rajesh Govindarajan        

RE: what is the difference between ledger and general ...

Ledger -Which contains all the Vendor accounts & all the Expenses accounts as well. Whereas in
General Ledger - We have only the Expenses account alone.

Rgds
Raj.


 
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June 19, 2007 04:56:59   #10  
subhasish ghosal        

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GL includes all the reconciliation accounts including Customer & Vendor master account in the form of Sundry Debtors or Sundry Creditors. Whereas Ledger means any ledger account like any vendor ledger account customer ledger account and for this reason these are called as sub ledger as well.
 
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