Maintaining a general ledger helps you gauge a business's financial health and avoid accounting mistakes. Learn what a ...

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The following general ledger/commitment items are used to record revenue as category 2 and 3 of the Statement of Financial Activity (SoFA) report. The categories are outlined alphabetically. Each ...

The general ledger is a vast historical data archive of your company’s financial activities, including revenue, expenses, adjustments, account balances, and often much more. The detailed transactions ...

Learn how accounting spreadsheets work with real examples of journals plus when to switch to accounting software.