Double Entry Bookkeeping
All accounting transactions are made up of 2 entries in the accounts: a debit and a credit.
For example, if you purchased a book, your value of books would increase, but your value of cash would decrease by the same value, at the same time. This is double entry bookkeeping.
Ledger Accounts
A ledger account is an item in either the Profit & Loss account (which we’ll discuss shortly) or the balance sheet. A Ledger account is either a:
Asset
Liability
Equity
Income
Expense
The example of purchasing a book, mentioned above, can be shown in the form of
ledger “T” accounts as follows: