JOURNAL

  1. Short for journal in finance. it is where an individual investor or professional manager log details of trades that happen in the investor’s own accounts used for tax, evaluation, and auditing.
  2. An accounting record where business transactions are entered. It details financial transactions occurred, transaction date, account(s) affected, and amounts, normally in a double-entry bookkeeping manner. These can be used for reconciling and transferring to other official accounting records such as general ledger in the future.