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CREATING AN ACCURATE TRIAL BALANCE FOR SERVICE BUSINESS
Introduction
Trial balance is an important document which facilitates the preparation of the financial statement.
According to accounting tools.com, trial balance is:
"a report run at the end of an accounting period, listing the ending balance in each account. The report is primarily used to ensure that the total of all debits equals the total of all credits, which means that there are no unbalanced journal entries in the accounting system that would make it impossible to generate accurate financial statements. The year-end trial balance is typically asked for by auditors when they begin an audit, so that they can transfer the account balances on the report into their auditing software; they may ask for an electronic version, which they can more easily copy into their software."
Another definition you might want to consider to further understand the concept is from the accounting coach.com which states:
"A trial balance is a bookkeeping or accounting report that lists the balances in each of an organization's general ledger accounts. (Accounts with zero balances will likely be omitted.) The debit balance amounts are listed in a column with the heading "Debit balances" and the credit balance amounts are listed in another column with the heading "Credit balances." The total of each of these two columns should be identical.
In a manual system a trial balance was commonly prepared by the bookkeeper in order to discover whether math errors and/or some posting errors were made. Today, bookkeeping and accounting software has eliminated those clerical errors. This means that the trial balance is less important for bookkeeping purposes since it is almost certain that the total of the debit and credit columns will be equal."
In a manual system a trial balance was commonly prepared by the bookkeeper in order to discover whether math errors and/or some posting errors were made. Today, bookkeeping and accounting software has eliminated those clerical errors. This means that the trial balance is less important for bookkeeping purposes since it is almost certain that the total of the debit and credit columns will be equal."
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