Friday, January 27, 2012

Trial Balance

A trial balance is a list of all the accounts in the ledger with their period end balances classified as debits or credits.
When the trial balance entries are correct, the totals of all debit balances are equal to all credit balances.
Trial balance is not an account, it is only a list or schedule of balances of ledger accounts.
Illustration of a Trial Balance
Trial Balance of Narayana Rao & Co, on 31.12.2007
Account
Debit
Rs.
Credit
Rs.
Purchases
100,000
 
Wages
6,000
 
Rent
2,400
 
Travelling expenses
4,800
 
Interest
1,200
 
Returns inward
4,000
 
Bank
10,000
 
Cash
34,000
 
Machinery
14,000
 
Furniture
1,000
 
Loan
 
45,800
Miscellaneous expenses
200
 
 
 
 
Returns outward
 
3,000
Salaries
12,000
 
Insurance
800
 
Discount
900
 
Sales
 
99,900
 
 
 
Sundry creditors
 
50,000
Capital
 
110,000
Drawings
15,000
 
Advertisements
2,400
 
Buildings
10,000
 
Sundry debtors
80,000
 
Stock (1-1-2007)
10,000
 
 
308,700
308,700

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