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Accounting
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| General Journal | A General Journal is a book in which the accounting entries for all transactions are first recorded in the ledger |
| Journal Entry | When you finish recording the transactions in the journal |
| Journalizing | The process of recording the transactions in the journal |
| Source Document | The evidence that a transaction has occured |
| Miscellaneous Expense | A type of expense that does not occur often |
| Debit Memo | When the bank takes money from you |
| Credit Memo | When you take money from the bank |
| Chart of accounts | When you assign numbers to the accounts in the ledgers |
| Posting | The process of transferring the journal entries to the account |
| Cross Reference | When you put the General Journal page on to the account or when you put the account number on to the General Journal page. |
| HST | Harmonized Sale tax (0.13) |
| Accounting cycle | Steps that you go through to complete one cycle if a fiscal year |