Account titles and explanation column

The first row of an entry shows the account debited. The second row shows the account credited. Notice that we notch the credit account title to the right. For example in Exhibit 8 we show the debit to the Cash account and then the credit to the Capital Stock account. Any essential explanation of a transaction appears on the line(s) below the credit entry and is indented halfway between the accounts debited and credited. A journal entry explanation ought to be concise and yet complete enough to describe fully the transaction and prove the entry's accuracy. While a journal entry is self explanatory we omit the explanation.