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Is a Trial Balance extracted from the balances in the Profit and Loss Account true or false?
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What is the importance of the trial balance in the preparation of a financial statement?
The trial balance is the source document for the preparation of any financial statements. A trial balance is a list of all the account codes with the current balances and the first step to prroduction of the financial statements is checking to see if it balances. If it doesn't then you're in serious trouble as there is a major flaw in your financial records. When constructing the profit and loss account in the financial statements you simply group together the income and expense accounts from the trial balance into convenient groupings and the resulting total is the profit or loss of the business. The balance sheet is contructed by simply taking all the balance sheet accounts from the financial statements, again grouping together into convenient groupings. The profit or loss calculated in the profit and loss earlier is the retained profit for the period that is entered at the bottom of the balance sheet to ensure it balances
What are the final statements of the business?
final statements are trading account,profit and loss account,balance sheet.
What are the financial statements of business organization?
The profit and loss account, the cash flow account and the balance sheet
Which item appears in both the balance sheet and the profit and loss account?
Closing Stock
Which type of account has a normal credit balance?
All liabilities as well as income accounts has normal credit balance and also profit has credit balance.
What is debit balance of profit and loss account?
Debit balance of Profit & Loss Account represents "Loss"
What is the importance of the trial balance in the preparation of a financial statement?
The trial balance is the source document for the preparation of any financial statements. A trial balance is a list of all the account codes with the current balances and the first step to prroduction of the financial statements is checking to see if it balances. If it doesn't then you're in serious trouble as there is a major flaw in your financial records. When constructing the profit and loss account in the financial statements you simply group together the income and expense accounts from the trial balance into convenient groupings and the resulting total is the profit or loss of the business. The balance sheet is contructed by simply taking all the balance sheet accounts from the financial statements, again grouping together into convenient groupings. The profit or loss calculated in the profit and loss earlier is the retained profit for the period that is entered at the bottom of the balance sheet to ensure it balances
What are the reason where the balance sheet will not tally?
Balance sheet is the summary of Assets ,Liabalities , and profit or loss from Profit and loss account. following are the common reasons 1.As Purely based on nduble entry system For each ledger debits there should a equlent ledger credit on all transactions. 2. We can divide ledgers into Balance sheet items and Profil and loss account items. Balance sheet ledgers are ledger balances which directly reflects in Balance sheet Profit and Loss ledgers are ledgers which is reflecting only in Profit and loss account not in balance sheet. 3. Check the opening balance sheet, difference in opening balance sheet may the reason.
About projected balance sheet and profit and loss account?
how to prepare the forecast report of profit and loss account with balancesheet
Who are the basic records used before preparing trading profit and loss accounts and balance sheet?
Basic records needed for preparing trading profit loss accounts and balancesheep is a trial balance.. A trial balance is the closing balances of each and every account entered in our ledger. Trading account shows us Gross profit while profit and loss account shows us net profit and in the end balance sheet shows us the Assets and Liabilities at the end of the financial year.. all direct expenses shown on trading accounts and direct income like sales shown in trading account while indirect exp and indirect income shown in p & L ac
Can a dormant account be closed and balance transferred to Profit loss account?
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Is profit and loss account given in trial balance a liability?
no
How the make profit and loss account and balance sheet in tally?
hai
What is the journal entry for profit transfer from profit and loss account to balance sheet?
Debit profit and loss accountCredit owners capital
Is additional capital will enter in the profit and loss appropriation account?
Additional capital is shown under capital account of balance sheet and not shown in profit and loss appropriation account.
Are profit and loss account on an income statement or balance sheet?
Profit & Loss Account is the Statement showing indirect expenses and receivable of a Company where as Balance Sheet is the Statement highlighting Assets and Liabilities of the said Company.
What are the final statements of the business?
final statements are trading account,profit and loss account,balance sheet.
