Trial Balance
a ledger
An accounting record that includes a list of accounts and their balances at a given time is called a trial balance.
If you are referring to a Trial Balance in Accounting, the Trial Balance is a list of nominal ledger (general ledger) accounts contained in the Ledger of a Business.
This report is known as the trial balance.
Most all business accounts are considered general ledger. Business accounts could include accounts receivable, accounts payable, customer order logs logs, merchant order logs, and the list can go on.
A trial balance may be prepared according to either of the following two methods:Total method:If the total of debit sides of all accounts in the ledger is placed in one column of the list and similarly total of credit sides of all the accounts in the ledger is placed in another column of the list then list of total will be known to have been prepared with the total methods.Balances method:According to this system a trial balance is prepared on the basis of balances of accounts. It is based on the mathematical maxim that if equals are taken away from equals, results are equal. This method is simple and requires less work.
A trial balance is a list of all the nominal ledger (general ledger) accounts 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 value balance. The debit balance values will be listed in the debit column of the trial balance and the credit value balance will be listed in the credit column. The profit and loss statement and balance sheet and other financial reports can then be produced using the ledger accounts listed on the trial balance...cj pulgar
For setting up a complete set of book-keeping first of all you need to consider the nature of the business. Then list the activities of the business for which you are about to set up bookkeeping. The chart of account (list of account with numbers) will be prepared keeping in view the nature of the business activities. Based on the list of accounts, ledger accounts are prepared. Ledger accounts are the customerily accounts that are to be shown on the financial statements. Ledger accounts contains balance sheet accounts like assets, Liabilities, owner equity and income statement accounts like Revenue, expenses and net profit/loss. Based on the income statement and balance sheet the statement of cash flow are prepared. Hope answer the question Haleem
The trial balance is the list of all open accounts in the ledger (although post-closing trial balances exist as well). If the A/P (Accounts Payable) account increased on the trial balance, this would mean that entries had been made (journalized) and posted to the ledger that increase the A/P account balance. For example, buying inventory on account would increase the A/P account balance. This transaction would be journalized and then posted (process of transferring info from journal to ledger). This would result in an increase in A/P on the trial balance.
The trial balance is the list of all open accounts in the ledger (although post-closing trial balances exist as well). If the A/P (Accounts Payable) account increased on the trial balance, this would mean that entries had been made (journalized) and posted to the ledger that increase the A/P account balance. For example, buying inventory on account would increase the A/P account balance. This transaction would be journalized and then posted (process of transferring info from journal to ledger). This would result in an increase in A/P on the trial balance.
Answer:The purpose of the trial balance is (historically) to verify if any errors were made with posting the journal entries to the ledger. Every journal entry makes debits and credits to (at least) two T-accounts, where the total of the debit and credit amounts need to be equal. The journal entry is posted to the journal, and the T-accounts affected are updated in the ledger. The trial balance is a list of all T-accounts and their balances. As the underlying journal entries need to balance out (total debits equal total credits), the balances of the trial balance also need to balance. If this is not the case, it means that an error has been made. It means that some journal entry has been entered into the ledger which did not balance.With computerized bookkeeping, this purpose (checking for errors) has been lost (at least for the user, the software may still use the trial balance to check for consistency).
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