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Journal vs. Ledger — What's the Difference?

Journal vs. Ledger — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Journal and Ledger

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Journal

A personal record of occurrences, experiences, and reflections kept on a regular basis; a diary.

Ledger

A ledger is a book or collection of accounts in which account transactions are recorded. Each account has an opening or carry-forward balance, would record transactions as either a debit or credit in separate columns and the ending or closing balance.

Journal

An official record of daily proceedings, as of a legislative body.

Ledger

A book in which the monetary transactions of a business are posted in the form of debits and credits.

Journal

(Nautical) A ship's log.
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Ledger

A book to which the record of accounts is transferred as final entry from original postings.

Journal

A daybook.

Ledger

A slab of stone laid flat over a grave.

Journal

A book of original entry in a double-entry system, listing all transactions and indicating the accounts to which they belong.

Ledger

A horizontal timber in a scaffold, attached to the uprights and supporting the putlogs.

Journal

A newspaper.

Ledger

A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.

Journal

A periodical presenting articles on a particular subject
A medical journal.

Ledger

A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.

Journal

The part of a machine shaft or axle supported by a bearing.

Ledger

(cryptocurrencies) A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.

Journal

To write one's observations or thoughts in a journal
Spent all day journaling about the trip.

Ledger

(accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.

Journal

A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.

Ledger

A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.

Journal

A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
The university's biology department subscribes to half a dozen academic journals.

Ledger

(construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.

Journal

(accounting) A chronological record of payments or receipts.

Ledger

(fishing) nodot=yes or ledger line (“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).

Journal

(accounting) A general journal.

Ledger

(transitive) To record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger.

Journal

(computing) A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.

Ledger

To use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing.

Journal

(engineering) The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings.

Ledger

To engage in bottom fishing.

Journal

To archive or record something.

Ledger

A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads.

Journal

To scrapbook.

Ledger

A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.

Journal

To insert (a shaft, etc.) in a journal bearing.

Ledger

A record in which commercial accounts are recorded;
They got a subpoena to examine our books

Journal

(obsolete) Daily.

Ledger

An accounting journal as a physical object;
He bought a new daybook

Journal

Daily; diurnal.
Whiles from their journal labors they did rest.

Journal

A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.

Journal

That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey.

Journal

That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box.

Journal

A daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations

Journal

A periodical dedicated to a particular subject;
He reads the medical journals

Journal

A ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred

Journal

A record book as a physical object

Journal

The part of the axle contained by a bearing

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