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What is the total of all account balances that are due to the physician called?
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The total amount of all accounts that is due to a physician is simply referred to as the balance due. Care should be taken to not confuse this amount with the balance due from the patient, as opposed to the balance due from the patient as well as his or her insurance company.
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What is guest ledger?
A subsidiary ledger related to the accounts receivable general ledger account used by hotels to record the individual account activity of guests who are still at the hotel. The total of the balances in the city ledger plus the total of the balances in the guest ledger should equal the balance in the accounts receivable general ledger account.
What is the total account debt as of the statement date called?
The total account debt as of the statement date is called the balance.
What report lists accounts and their balances in which the total debit balances should equal the total credit balances?
Trial Balance
Why may a control account carries both debit and credit balances?
A control account summarizes a set of subsidiary accounts. For example, Accounts receivable may have a control account, representing total Accounts receivable, and also may have a set of subsidiary accounts, representing the amount of Accounts receivable owed by each customer/debtor. The total of all subsidiary accounts must equal the balance of the control account. Control accounts will have debit or credit balances depending on the nature of those accounts. Control accounts for assets, such as Accounts receivable or Fixed assets, will have native debit balances. Control accounts for liabilities, such as Accounts payable, will have native credit balances.
What is The Difference between total debits and credits to an account called?
The Account balance.
Why are control account balances reported in external financial statements while subsidiary account balances are not?
A control account is a summary account in the general ledger. The details that support the balance in the summary account are contained in a subsidiary ledger-a ledger outside of the general ledger. The purpose of the control account is to keep the general ledger free of details, yet have the correct balance for the financial statements. For example, the Accounts Receivable account in the general ledger could be a control account. If it were a control account, the company would merely update the account with a few amounts, such as total collections for the day, total sales on account for the day, total returns and allowances for the day, etc. The details on each customer and each transaction would not be recorded in the Accounts Receivable control account in the general ledger. Rather, these details of the accounts receivable activity will be in the Accounts Receivable Subsidiary Ledger. This works well because the employees working with the general ledger probably do not need to see the details for every sale or every collection transaction. However, the sales manager and the credit manager will need to know detailed information on individual customers, including whether a customer recently reduced their account balance. The company can provide these individuals with access to the Accounts Receivable Subsidiary Ledger and can keep the general ledger free of a tremendous amount of detail. Sourced: http://blog.accountingcoach.com/accounts-receivable-control-account-subsidiary-ledger/ (second result after googling "Control account balances and Subsidiary account balances" ps: lrn2google)
How is subsidiary ledger different to the general ledger?
A subsidiary ledger is a group of similar accounts whose combined balances equal the balance in a specific general ledger account. The general ledger account that summarizes a subsidiary ledger's account balances is called a control account or master account. For example, an accounts receivable subsidiary ledger (customers' subsidiary ledger) includes a separate account for each customer who makes credit purchases. The combined balance of every account in this subsidiary ledger equals the balance of accounts receivable in the general ledger. Posting a debit or credit to a subsidiary ledger account and also to a general ledger control account does not violate the rule that total debit and credit entries must balance because subsidiary ledger accounts are not part of the general ledger; they are supplemental accounts that provide the detail to support the balance in a control account.
Where does the sum of customers' unpaid balances that is compared to the general ledger balance comes from?
The sum of customers unpaid balance or balance of account receivables in the General Ledger usually comes from a subsidiary ledger which contains an individual account receivable for each customer, the total of these accounts are summed and placed in one single account in the "general ledger".
Identify the disadvantage of trial balance?
The trial balance may be wrong but it will not show it (total debit balances will still be equal to the total credit balances). It may happen if there are next kind of mistakes: Commission - a transaction is entered in the wrong account; Reversal - the debit entry in written on the credit side and the credit entry is written on the debit side; Ommision - a transaction is completely ommited from the books; Principle - an item is ebtered in a completely wrong class of account; Original entry - a wrong account is entered in a book of origibal entry and then the wrong figure is used for posting a ledger; Compensating - errors cancel each other.
What is the purpose of the adjusted trial balance?
The adjusted trial balance is a document that shows the total amount of debit balances against the total amount of credit balances. This is not considered a financial statement since it is only used as an internal document.
Does cost of goods sold account have a debit balance or a credit balance?
Expense accounts should always be debit balances. The only exception is when you are recording discounts received on purchases in a separate account than the COGS account used for purchases. Discounts should be shown as a COGS account so that it is netted against purchases, and will have a credit balance. But even in this case, the total of all COGS accounts should be a debit balance.
What type of checking account usually requires the highest balance to be kept on deposit?
A high-yield checking account typically requires the highest balance to be kept on deposit. These types of accounts often offer higher interest rates than regular checking accounts, but in exchange, they require a minimum balance to be maintained in order to earn the high interest rate.
