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I mean that in normal routine we use these two terms but i think that these book are the same. are you?
Cash Book
A financial journal that contains all cash receipts and payments, including bank deposits and withdrawals. Entries in the cash book are then posted into the general ledger. The cash book is periodically reconciled with the bank statements as an internal method of auditing.
Day Book
A book in which the transactions of each day are recorded as they occur or an account book in which a day's transactions are entered for later transfer to a ledger.
Journal
In accounting, a journal is a record of financial transactions in order by date. A journal is often defined as the book of original entry. The definition was more appropriate when transactions were written in a journal prior to manually posting them to the accounts in the general ledger or subsidiary ledger. Manual systems usually had a variety of journals such as a sales journal, purchases journal, cash receipts journal, cash disbursements journal, and a general journal. (Note: Cash book also part of general journal)
Cash Book
A financial journal that contains all cash receipts and payments, including bank deposits and withdrawals. Entries in the cash book are then posted into the general ledger. The cash book is periodically reconciled with the bank statements as an internal method of auditing.
Larger firms usually divide the cash book into two parts. The first part is the cash disbursement journal that records all cash payments, such as accounts payable and operating expenses. The second part is the cash receipts journal, which records all cash receipts, such as accounts receivable and cash sales.
in journal each and every transaction is recorded whereas in cashbook only cash trnsactions are recorded
In journal we can record all types of transactions including cash while in cash book we record only cash transactions.
Alajah of course, in the Journal is a daily accounts are all either Cash or order or the closing or settlement
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