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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