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What does posting journal entries to ledger accounts involve?
What does posting journal entries to ledger accounts involve?
- Transferring information from the journal to the relevant ledger accounts (correct)
- Summarizing financial statements directly from the journal
- Creating new journal entries for each ledger account
- Transferring information from ledger accounts to the journal
Why is it important to post journal entries to ledger accounts?
Why is it important to post journal entries to ledger accounts?
- To create a summary of financial transactions
- To directly prepare financial statements
- To eliminate the need for a general ledger
- To maintain a record of individual transactions for each account (correct)
What is the purpose of posting journal entries to ledger accounts?
What is the purpose of posting journal entries to ledger accounts?
- To directly generate balance sheets
- To organize and classify transactions by account (correct)
- To calculate total revenue and expenses
- To simplify the process of preparing tax returns
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