What is General Ledger?
General ledger (GL) is a set of
numbered accounts of a company for its accounting record. It is also a part of
system used by accountants to create the firm’s financial statement.
Transactions are posted to the general ledger accounts, and the accountant
generates a trial balance, a report listing all the accounts and each account’s
balance. The trial balance is adjusted by posting additional entries, and the
adjusted trial balance is used to generate the financial statements.
Benefits of Using GL
Verification
This application helps you to
identify imbalanced trial balance or variance in creditor/debtor ledger account
balance and trial balance.
How GL Verification Works?
Example 1: On 06/12/2016, system found out
that one of the cashbook payment transactions has variance that caused by
imbalance debit/ credit balance (no posting record shown in expenses
account).
How to fix
this issue?
Step 1: Double click on the transaction that got
variance and system will come out with a quick entry for user to do double entry
posting.
Step 2: Select General Ledger Code (expenses
account) and Description based on the original Description stated above.
Step 3: Save the transaction after finish keying
in the entry.