Before computers, accountants used special paper with columns to summarize general ledger entries. Columnar worksheets made accounting projects easier than if they were written on notebook paper.

Export the general ledger to Excel; (2) repeat account numbers and descriptions for each row; (3) delete unnecessary rows and columns; (4) pivot the data in an Excel PivotTable; (5) sort and filter ...

A general ledger stores and organizes the data that ... Double-entry transactions, called journal entries, are posted in two columns, with debit entries on the left and credit entries on the ...