When Alan Rayan failed the finals of his Business Administration degree, he opened a shop near the

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When Alan Rayan failed the finals of his Business Administration degree, he opened a shop near the university selling secondhand books. The bookkeeper who maintained his ledger resigned shortly after the year-end. Alan felt that he had sufficient knowledge to extract a Trial Balance from his books of account and is surprised when the Trial Balance failed to balance.


Required:

(a) Explain to Alan why his Trial Balance fails to balance.

(b) Re-draft the Trial Balance as at 31 December 2010.

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Financial Accounting An Introduction

ISBN: 9780273737650

2nd Edition

Authors: Mr Barry Elliott, Mr Augustine Benedict

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