Here, we have an additional Discount column on each side of the cash book. The debit side column of discount represents the discount to debtors of the company and the credit side of discount column means the discount received from our suppliers or creditors while making payments.
The total of discount column of debit side of cash book is posted in the ledger account of ‘Discount Allowed to Customers’ account as ‘To Total As Per Cash Book’. Similarly, credit column of cash book is posted in ledger account of ‘Discount Received’ as ‘By total of cash book’.
Format
| CASH BOOK (Single Column) | |||||||||
| Dr. | Cr. | ||||||||
| Date | Particulars | L.F. | Discount | Amount | Date | Particulars | L.F. | Discount | Amount |
