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The accounting process does not stop here. The transactions are recorded in number of books in chronological order. Such recording of business transactions serves little purpose of accounting. Items of same title in different books of accounts need to be brought at one place under one head called an account. There are numerous account titles of items/persons or accounts. All the accounts, if brought in one account book, will be more informative and useful. The account book so maintained is called Ledger.  \nIn this lesson, you will learn about Ledger and posting of items entered in various books of accounts to ledger.  \n\n| |  |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | OBJECTIVES |\n\nAfter studying this lesson, you will be able to:  \n􀁬 state the meaning, features and importance of ledger;  \n􀁬 enumerate the various types of ledger;  \n􀁬 state the meaning of posting and explain the steps of posting journal into ledger;  \n􀁬 calculate the balance of the account in the ledger.  \n6.1 LEDGER : MEANING, IMPORTANCE AND TYPES  \nYou have already learnt about accounts. Each transaction affects two accounts. In each account transactions related to that account are recorded. For example, sale of goods taking place number of times in a year will be put under one Account i.e. Sales Account.  \n 100  ACCOUNTANCY  \nLedger  \nAll the accounts identified on the basis of transactions recorded in different journals/books such as Cash Book, Purchase Book, Sales Book etc. will be opened and maintained in a separate book called Ledger. So a ledger is a book of account; in which all types of accounts relating to assets, liabilities, capital, expenses and revenues are maintained. It is a complete set of accounts of a business enterprise.  \nLedger is bound book with pages consecutively numbered. It may also be a bundle of sheets.  \nThus, from the various journals/Books ofa business enterprise, all transactions recorded throughout the accounting year are placed in relevant accounts in the ledger through the process of posting of transactions in the ledger. Thus, posting is the process of transfer of entries from Journal/Special Journal Books to ledger.  \nFeatures of ledger  \n􀁬 Ledger is an account book that contains various accounts to which various business transactions of a business enterprise are posted.  \n􀁬 It is a book of final entry because the transactions that are first entered in the journal or special purpose Books are finally posted in the ledger. It is also called the Principal Book of Accounts.  \n􀁬 In the ledger all types of accounts relating to assets, liabilities, capital, revenue and expenses are maintained.  \n􀁬 It is a permanent record of business transactions classified into relevant accounts.  \n􀁬 It is the ‘reference book of accounting system and is used to classify and summarise transactions to facilitate the preparation of financial statements.  \nFormat of a ledger sheet  \nThe format of a ledger sheet is as follows :  \nTitle of an Account  \nDr. Cr.  \n\n| Date | Particulars | JF | Amount\u003Cbr>Rs. |  | Date | Particular | JF | Amount\u003Cbr>Rs. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n\nYou must have noticed that the format of a ledger sheet is similar to that of the format of an Account about which you have already learnt. A full  \nMODULE-1  \nACCOUNTANCY  101   \nMODULE-1 Basic Accounting  \nLedger  \nsheet page may be allotted to one account or two or more accounts maybe opened on one sheet. It depends upon the number of items related to that account to be posted.  \nImportance of Ledger  \nLedger is an important book of Account. It contains all the accounts in which all the business transactions of a business enterprise are classified. At the end of the accounting period, each account will contain the entire information of all the transactions relating to it. 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