Subsidiary Ledgers And Special Journals.

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1. CheckPoint: Subsidiary Ledgers and Special Journals * Explain in 250 to 300 words, your answers to the following: * What are the advantages of the four different special journals? When would you use each type? * What is a subsidiary ledger and what purpose does it serve? * What is a control account and what purpose does it serve? * Which two general ledger accounts may act as control accounts for a subsidiary ledger? * What are the advantages of using subsidiary ledgers? * A subsidiary ledger is where comparable journal entries are summarized. The subsidiary ledger should be used for control accounts and cash accounts. The special journals should be used when regual general is of no use. The purpose of the subsidiary ledger is to condense the account journal entries in a moral detail personal way. Control accounts are into two parts the general ledger and subsidiary ledger. the general ledger include cash, account payable, accountant receivables and common stock. In the subsidiary ledger consists of customers and creditors. The purpose of the control account is to keep the general ledger free of unnecessary information yet have the correct balance for the financial statements. The advantages of using the subsidiary ledgers it keeps account information up to date and holds account information in one transaction another advantage is that it does not have unnecessary information in the journey only what is need it frees up the ledger. It also help pin point errors by focus more on one personal account other than any different ones. Last but not least it helps with making a division of labor were one employee is able to post were another is not able to. These two general ledger accounts may act as control accounts for a subsidiary ledger such as account receivables and account payables the special ledgers and the

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