1. The journal does not sort the entries into accounts.
2. The journal does not show in one place, for example, utilities expense.
3. A journal does not supply account balances for preparing up-date financial records.
4. In order to see how transactions have changed account balances, posting from the different journals to the accounts is necessary.
5. Posting is a simple sorting process that transfers amounts from the journals to the appropriate accounts in the ledger.
6. If you look at the Chart of Accounts below, you will see that the ledger is arranged in the same order as they appear in financial reports.
7. The assets, liabilities and stockholders' equity accounts are on the balance sheet.
8. The revenue and expense accounts are on the income statment.
9. The ledger is arranged in the same manner.
10. We need to look first at Bromley's Formal Wear General Ledger.
11. Click on the link above to view the general ledger.
12. Account names and numbers are filled in
13. As you can see they match the chart of accounts.
14. They are arranged by type of account: assets, liabilities, stockholders equity, sales, cost of merchandise sole and expenses.

1. The first one is to record the loan.
2. The amount of the loan was for $15,800.00.
3. The amount was determined by the items that we needed to start up our business: Furniture & Fixtures, Office Equipment, Supplies, and Merchandise Inventory.
4. As you can see two accounts, Cash and Notes Payable are involved in this tranasaction.
5. Let's post the Cash account first.
   • In cell A8, type in the date of the posting , 11-1
   • In cell C8, type GJ1. This is the posting reference and states that this number came from the General Journal, Page 1
   • In Cell D8, type in 150,800. This where the first debit posting to this account goes.
   • The debit total column shows 150,800
   • The balance in the account shows 150,800 debit balance.
   • Find the Notes Payable account. It is a liability account so, scroll down until you see it.
   • In cell A103 enter the date, 11-1
   • In cell C103, type GJ1 as the posting reference
   • In cell E103, type in the amount of the posting, 150,800
   • The total of the credits posting to the account shows at the bottom
   • The account balance is a credit balance of 150,800.
   
   
6. Post the second entry from the General Journal, the one relating to common stock and cash.
7. Follow the same procedure as listed above.
8. Cash Posting
   • Cell A9 for the Date, 11-1
   • Cell C9 for posting reference, GJ1
   • Cell D9 For the debit amount of, 85,000
9. Common Stock Posting
   • Cell A217 for the Date, 11-1
   • Cell C217 for the posting reference, GJ1
   • Cell E217 for the credit amount of 85,000
10. Post the next two entries for salary expense and payroll taxes in the same manner as instructed above.
11. How do you know if you posted correctly?
12. Read the short tutorial on trial balance, then scroll down to the bottom of the worksheet to see if you are in balance after posting these four entries.
13. Save your file and turn in a printout toyour instructor.

POSTING FROM THE CASH RECEIPTS JOURNAL

1. Click on the link for the Cash Payments Journal
2. Scroll down to row 30. These are the numbers to be posted to the general ledger
3. The table below shows which accounts are debited and credited, the amount to be posted and the cell number in the general ledger where the amount should be entered.
4. You will also need to supply the date of the transaction and the post ref showing that the posting came from the cash payments journal (cp1)
5. You notice that all accounts in the cash payments journal are debited with the exception of Cash which is credited the total amount of all the debited accounts.

1. Total Sales - Cell E11
2. Sales Tax Payable - Cell F11
3. Accounts Receivable - Cell G11

• The people's name listed here are the accounts that need to have amounts posted to the accounts receivable ledger.
• Scroll over in the sales journal until you see the column headed "A/R Debit" .The amounts listed in this column will be posted as debits to their individual accounts.
• The first customer that charged some merchandise is Jerome Stevens. He owes us $1,620.
• Proceed as follows to post this amount to Jermone Stevens' account.
  1. Click on the Accounts Receivable Ledger link.
  2. You should now see the accounts receivable ledger.
  3. Find his account
  4. On the first line under the heading "Date Item Post Ref Debit Credit", key in the date 11-1
  5. The post reference SJ1
  6. The debit amount 1,620.00
  7. Look at the picture below to see how it looks when done.
  
  
  
  
• Continue to post the individual AR Debit amounts to all of the customers listed in the sales journal.
• Kenny Sanches
• Maryanne Thompson
• Rob Jones
• Charles Jamison
• Janet Coy

• The cash receipts journal shows cash received from cash sales and received on account amounts from charge sales customers.
• We are interested here in the payments made to Bromley's Formal Wear from our charge sales customers.
• Below is a sample cash receipts journal for illustration purposes.

• The date is listed.
• The Doc # is next. It is a receipt number.
• The customer's name is next.
• The accounts receivable credit is the next column
• The Cash Debit column is next.
• The number we want to post is the Accounts Receivable Credit

• The posting to the accounts receivable account for Jerome Stevens shows:
• Date - November 30
• Item
• Post Reference shows that this entry came from the Cash Receipts journal.
• The credit to Accounts Receivable - $1,620.00
• The debit to Cash - $1,620.00
• Each money column has a total near the bottom of the form
• The balance in this account, as you can see is now zero after posting the accounts receivable credit on November 30.