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Edexcel IGCSE·Accounting·IGCSE Accounting

The Trial Balance

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Preparing a trial balance and the errors it does and does not reveal.

The trial balance lists all account balances to check that total debits equal total credits.

Preparing it

  • Debit balances: assets, expenses, drawings.
  • Credit balances: capital, liabilities, income (sales).

If the columns are equal, the books are arithmetically correct.

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