Best Practice Guidelines: Accounting Management
7. Ledgers
Ledgers are the Chartered accounts where the detail transactions are put in.
A Practice can get a temple of ledgers from there Bookkeepers or Auditors. GoodX can also supply with a standard Ledger account structure.
A basic structure can have 3 to 4 different levels, you can have as many levels as you need. Ledgers will be dived into 2 main sections, Income statement Ledgers (Income and Expenses) and Balance sheet (Assets, Liabilities, and Capital). All the Ledgers will be indicated on a Trial Balance.
The first level will be your summarized ledgers:
Income statement
INC - Income
EXP - Expenditure
Profit and loss - SCR1
Balance sheet
FIX - Fixed Assets (Employment of capital)
LTI - Investment
SDR - Sundry
CAS - Current Assets (under 1 year of use)
- Staff loans
- Debtors
- Stock
CLI - Current Liabilities
SCR - Capital (Capital employed)
LOA - Long-term Asset
- Loans from a bank for vehicles or property or big loans that is for an asset to the company
Trial balance
- Profit and Loss
- Balance sheet accounts