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A cash book, or petty cash log, is a ledger for keeping track of small cash purchases. Some small businesses such as restaurants find cash books especially useful because these companies tend to need ...

A general ledger is an accounting record book in which you maintain a record of transactions for each of your company's accounts. The source of information for each transaction is typically your ...

Ledgers came about in 1994 when a group of concerned Chartered Accountants from Sydney, Nova Scotia recognized that there were few, if any accounting service firms available for the fast-growing small ...

Accounting automation solutions provider Digits announced the release of its new Autonomous Digital Ledger solution, directly challenging competitors such as QuickBooks. The AGL acts as a proactive ...

The general principles of double-entry bookkeeping were created in thirteenth century Italy and fully developed by the fifteenth. Still in use today, these principles remain largely the same. The ...