What is a Trial Balance? State its objectives and characteristics. Give some reasons for disagreement of the Trial Balance. A ’Trial Balance’ is a list of all the General ledger accounts (both revenue and capital) contained in the ledger of a business. This list will contain the name of the nominal ledger account and the value of that nominal ledger account. The value of the nominal ledger will hold either a debit balance value or a credit balance value. The debit balance values will be listed
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examples. (10 Marks) 2. Explain any two types of errors that are disclosed by trial balance with examples and rectification entry. Note - Avoid giving examples given in the self learning material. (10 marks) Nov 2010 3. Let us assume you have been recently appointed as Management Accountant of a small but upcoming firm. Your immediate supervisor has asked you to prepare certain financial ratios from the balance sheet of one of their clients M/s Vinod Enterprise. Liabilities Amount Assets
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b) If the trial balance can be ‘in balance’ and still have errors‚ give examples of the type of errors that can occur leaving the trial balance in balance. For example‚ if $523 is the correct amount to be entered for both credit and debit side but entered $532‚ trial balance will show the same amounts for both debit and credit side but contains error. In addition‚ reverse entries can cause trial balance to be in balance but still contains error. For example‚ instead of recording debit
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INTRODUCTION: Trial balance is a statement which shows debit balances and credit balances of all accounts in the ledger. Since‚ every debit should have a corresponding credit as per the rules of double entry system‚ the total of the debit balances and credit balances should tally (agree). In case‚ there is a difference‚ one has to check the correctness of the balances brought forward from the respective accounts. Trial balance can be prepared in any date provided accounts are balanced. DEFINITION
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2011 Interest allowed by bank Rs. 8‚000 Classification of accounting equation approach with meaning and examples Analysis of transaction –with accounts involved-nature of accountaffects and debit/credit 2 4 10 6 The following trial balance was extracted from the books of Chetan‚ a small businessman. Do you think it is correct? If not‚ rewrite it in the correct form. Debits Stock Purchases Returns outwards Rs. Credits 8250 Capital 12750 Sales 700 Returns inwards
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Chapter 2‚ Illustrative Problem 1 Entries into T accounts and trial balance Daphne Ebert‚ an interior design consultant‚ established a professional services corporation known as Daphne Designs‚ Inc. on August 1 of the current year. During the month‚ she opened an office and completed the following transactions connected with her professional practice: a. Daphne deposited $32‚500 drawn on her personal bank account to a business account opened under the name of Daphne’s Designs in exchange
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3.1 Trial balance 3.1.1 The source and structure of trial balance A trial balance is a list with two columns‚ which are debit and credit. It is important to every company that they need to check the errors that maybe made during enter the transactions into general accounts. If the principles of the double entry have been correctly applied to the recording of transactions in ledger accounts‚ the total of debit balances will equal to the total of credit balances. So the total of the debit column should
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The Income Statement accounts (with normal account balances) from the Adjusted Trial Balance of MJM Co. at 12/31/08 is as follows: Sales 1‚500‚000 Cost of Goods Sold 600‚000 Selling Administrative Expense 300‚000 Interest Revenue 180‚000 Gain on the Sale of Equipment 270‚000 Loss on the Sale of IBM Stock 300‚000 Loss from Discontinued Division Operations 750‚000 Gain on the Sale of the Discontinued Division 900‚000 Extraordinary Gain from Tornado Insurance 1‚050‚000 Income Tax Expense (at 30% Rate)
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question stated that when a Trial Balance balances‚ it means the accounts are free of errors. I disagree with the statement. There may still be errors even if the trial balance is balances. There are six types of errors. The first type of error is the “error of omission” and the word omission mean left out. Its mean that a transaction is not recorded in the books of original entry‚ which mean both the debit and credit effects of the transaction are not shown in the Trial Balance. For example‚ a transaction
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3-1 THE ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM 3-2 Financial Accounting‚ Seventh Edition 3 Accounting Accounting Transactions Transactions Event (1). On October 1‚ cash of $10‚000 is invested in Sierra Corporation by investors in exchange for $10‚000 of common stock. 1. +10‚000 3-3 +10‚000 LO 1 Analyze the effect of business transactions on the basic accounting equation. Accounting Accounting Transactions Transactions Event (2). On October 1‚ Sierra borrowed $5‚000 from Castle Bank by signing
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