I never majored in accounting but I can still remember "General Journal" being a standard term often used in Canadian high school accounting about 50 years ago. Recently I picked up an Ontario, Canada bookkeeping text book from 1882. It makes a distinction between what are called "Day Books, Journals and Ledgers". I'll try to photograph some relative pages in the next few days and attach them in a post. Leo
-----Original Message----- From: gnucash-user [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+lbolta=rogers....@gnucash.org] On Behalf Of Buddha Buck Sent: February-26-18 7:34 AM To: elvis Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: General Ledger It's not an Australian accounting thing, unless I managed to grab Australian book out of my small-city upstate New York library system some 30 years ago... On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:38 AM elvis <el...@dogonfire.com> wrote: > On 25/02/18 07:54, Dave H wrote: > > Well from my point of view that is confusing. Nobody in my world > > refers > to > > a "General Journal" we refer to the "General Ledger" and we do > > journals > > :-) I've never actually heard the term general journal used > > anywhere before until this discussion over the weekend !!! > > You weren't in my accounting class where we got the use of the general > journal beaten into us :-) I can still remember it 30 years later. > Maybe it's an Australian accounting thing. > > Cheers Dave H. > > > > On 24 February 2018 at 19:58, Geert Janssens > > <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be > > > > wrote: > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.