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Insightful Accountant
JUNE 23, 2025
Digits AI-native accounting platform has launched Digits Accounting Agents, embedding AI agents to run entire accounting workflows for firms on its Autonomous General Ledger® (AGL).
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Accounting Today
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Accounting automation solutions provider Digits released its Autonomous Digital Ledger solution, intended to directly challenge competitors such as QuickBooks.
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Xero
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You can also save time on manual data entry, by importing trial balances and general ledger data from Xero into Caseware’s cloud suite of assurance and financial reporting solutions.
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Fidesic blog
MAY 14, 2025
Did you know Microsoft Dynamics GP includes a powerful feature that can significantly reduce the time and effort required to reconcile your Accounts Payable subledger with your General Ledger? In this post we will tell you about Great Plains' Reconcile to GL tool, how to use it and the how it helps AP teams reduce month-end stress.
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Xero
APRIL 13, 2023
Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss (Income Statement) and Budget Variance reports: We’ve added the ability to translate these reports into any currency enabled in your organisation, for a quick view of your financials in the currency of your choice Receivable and Payable Invoice Summary and Detail reports, and drilldowns from Income by Contact and Expenses (..)
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Accounting Tools
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Related Courses Accountants’ Guidebook Bookkeeper Education Bundle Bookkeeping Guidebook The general ledger is the master set of accounts that aggregates all transactions recorded for a business. Ensure that all journal entries that should have reversed within the period have been reversed. Ending balance review.
Xero
APRIL 2, 2023
Reports: A new version of the General Ledger Summary report is now available. You can drill down into the General Ledger Detail report , choose which accounts to show, customise columns and more.
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Accounting Tools
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
What is a General Ledger? A general ledger is the master set of accounts that summarize all transactions occurring within an entity. The general ledger is comprised of all the individual accounts needed to record the assets , liabilities , equity , revenue , expense , gain , and loss transactions of a business.
Accounting Tools
MARCH 26, 2023
Related Courses Bookkeeper Education Bundle Bookkeeping Guidebook The general ledger and general journal are both components of a double-entry accounting system. These transactions are recorded in chronological order, which makes the general journal an excellent place in which to research accounting transactions by date.
Compleatable
MAY 1, 2025
Approval Workflows Easily create complex approval and payment workflows with seamless customizations; maintain entire audit trail in one central location General Ledger Sync Automatic reconciliation to the general ledger within your existing account software; saving time and money at month end by closing out books faster and more accurately About (..)
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Xero
JUNE 6, 2025
One way to do this easily is by generating the Payroll Activity Summary report and comparing it with the General Ledger report. Reconcile your payroll accounts After processing all pay runs for the financial year, it’s important to forensically check the accuracy of your reporting.
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Nanonets
MAY 6, 2024
General Ledger Reconciliation The General Ledger (GL) is a silent custodian of a company's financial narrative. These documents provide supplementary details and serve as external sources of validation for the transactions recorded in the general ledger. What is the General Ledger?
Remote Quality Bookkeeping
JULY 28, 2023
That’s where a general ledger comes in. What is a General Ledger? A general ledger records every financial transaction conducted by your business. Typically, a general ledger is broken down into several accounts that are organized by transaction type.
Accounting Today
JANUARY 30, 2025
Future accountants should be as proficient in performing variance analyses and using data visualization software as they are with general ledgers.
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Nanonets
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Welcome to our latest blog post, where we embark on a deep dive into the intricacies of the General Ledger (GL) — the bedrock of any business's financial system. We will start with the basics: What exactly is a General Ledger, and why is it paramount to your business's financial health?
Insightful Accountant
JULY 10, 2025
While attending Scaling New Heights, I was "puzzled to find" that I hadn't already explored 'Puzzle', an AI-native general ledger designed to save time, improve accuracy, and generate financial insights.
Nanonets
JULY 21, 2023
Maintaining accurate financial records is vital for any business, and the general ledger, as the central repository of financial transactions, plays a critical role in this process. Ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the general ledger requires regular reconciliation. What is general ledger reconciliation?
Xero
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
My view of entrepreneurship was formed at a very young age when I helped my parents (who were doctors running their own medical practice) hand complete their general ledger and file their taxes year after year. In our small hometown of St.
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Insightful Accountant
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Accounting Tools
AUGUST 18, 2024
Posting in accounting is when the balances in subledgers and the general journal are shifted into the general ledger. Posting only transfers the total balance in a subledger into the general ledger, not the individual transactions in the subledger. What is the General Ledger?
Xero
MAY 17, 2022
Reconcile your accounts, comparing the Payroll Activity Summary report and the General Ledger. The easiest way to do this is to run the Payroll Activity Summary report and compare this to the General Ledger report. . You can run both reports for a custom date range to help identify any discrepancies.
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Bookkeeping Express
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Avoid Proprietary General Ledgers: One of the challenges with Bench was its use of a proprietary general ledger system, making it difficult for clients to transition to other platforms. Choose a firm that works with industry-standard tools like QuickBooks or Xero, ensuring your data is portable and accessible.
Insightful Accountant
JUNE 6, 2025
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Xero
AUGUST 29, 2023
Integrating All Your Expenses With Your Accounting System The final consideration for balancing compliance with automation is how your expenses are ultimately recorded in your general ledger. With paper-based processes, or even using tools like Excel or Sheets, this would include manual data entry which can be prone to errors.
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Xero
JUNE 30, 2022
This enhancement means you can make adjustments that are not sent back to the general ledger from within the return. Organisations on a flat rate scheme can now add non-posting adjustments to boxes in the VAT return and access a new VAT audit report, Non-Posting adjustments by VAT box. Improve your workflows in Xero Tax — UK.
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Insightful Accountant
JUNE 25, 2025
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Xero
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
upgraded versions of more reports, including Bank Reconciliation, General Ledger, and Journal reports. There was plenty to share in reporting too — including some new features on the way, including: a new tool to help you bring saved layouts from old Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reports, across to the new versions.
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Xero
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EzzyBills connects to Xero to automate time-consuming tasks such as data-extraction from document line-items, management expense approvals, general ledger coding, and e-invoicing. Extracting the data. The biggest benefit of EzzyBills for our users is the amount of time saved.
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Compleatable
JANUARY 20, 2025
For example, once invoices are processed and approved through the purchase invoice management system, they are automatically transferred to the accounting software for recording in the general ledger. This tight integration ensures that the accounting books are always up to date without the need for double handling of data.
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Insightful Accountant
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Xero
JULY 11, 2022
Soon, we’ll be adding more reports into Xero — including General Ledger, Journal and Bank Reconciliation reports — as well as introducing foreign currency into new reports. As you can see, there’s plenty of value to discover in our new reports right now. But our teams are working hard to build on this even further in the months ahead.
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Accounting Today
APRIL 30, 2025
In an ideal world, your general ledger is streamlined, automated, and error-free financial reconciliations. Yet, in reality, when it comes to reconciling, most accountants still find themselves defaulting to Excel.
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Nolan Accounting Center
JUNE 15, 2025
For each transaction, there must be at least one debit and one credit equaling each other recorded on the company’s general ledger accounts. Generally, a business will assign transactions to one of five main account types: Asset accounts contain the resources that a company relies on to generate revenue.
Insightful Accountant
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
If you need more financial metrics and forecasting than your General Ledger can provide, check out this article. Clockwork is a financial analytics and planning app that works with QuickBooks Online, Xero and QuickBooks Desktop.
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Xero
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Accountants can run payroll in a few clicks, automate taxes and keep every detail synced to the general ledger with our customisable integration with Xero. Automating payroll also helps to drive accuracy and efficiency, and minimise compliance risk. Democratising enterprise-level technology for small businesses.
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Insightful Accountant
JUNE 11, 2025
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Remote Quality Bookkeeping
APRIL 14, 2025
Maintaining the General Ledger: Ensuring all transactions are accurately recorded in your general ledger, which serves as the master document for your books. Monitoring Accounts Receivable: Tracking outstanding customer payments and following up to collect overdue invoices. Timely collections improve your cash flow.
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Insightful Accountant
JUNE 27, 2025
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Accounting Tools
JUNE 12, 2023
A subsidiary ledger stores the details for a general ledger control account. Once information has been recorded in a subsidiary ledger, it is periodically summarized and posted to a control account in the general ledger , which in turn is used to construct the financial statements of a company.
Accounting Tools
JUNE 12, 2023
Related Courses Bookkeeping Guidebook How to Audit Receivables New Controller Guidebook The reconciliation of accounts receivable is the process of matching the detailed amounts of unpaid customer billings to the accounts receivable total stated in the general ledger. The two information sources for this reconciliation are noted below.
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Xero
AUGUST 14, 2024
This will allow our shared customers in Canada to import trial balances and general ledger data from Xero into Caseware Working Papers. The integration, set to launch later this year, will save clients precious time and streamline year-end workflows.
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Accounting Tools
JUNE 7, 2023
Related Courses Bookkeeper Education Bundle Bookkeeping Guidebook Closing the Books Posting in accounting is when the balances in subledgers and the general journal are shifted into the general ledger. Instead, all information is directly stored in the accounts listed in the general ledger.
Xero
MAY 17, 2023
For example: you ‘sort by account code’ in old reports, whereas in new reports (like the General Ledger Detail report) you ‘group or summarise by account code & name’. Over the last year, we’ve encouraged you to have a play with new reports so you get used to how they work.
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Accounting Tools
DECEMBER 19, 2023
The fixed asset accountant , general ledger clerk , and tax accountant are most likely to be involved in the use of journal entries. There may be a number of closing entries at the end of each reporting period that the general ledger clerk is tasked with entering into the accounting system.
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