The "All About You" feature indicates that Luca Pacioli, who described the double-entry accounting system used over 500 years ago, wrote "a person should not go to sleep at night until the debits equaled the credits."
In the double-entry system, debits and credits are used to record the dual effect of each transaction in the appropriate accounts and to keep the basic accounting equation in balance. For each transaction, the debits must equal the credits; therefore, the total debits and credits for all of the accounts should be equal. If the total debits do not equal the credits, there is an error in the accounting records. You are a first-year university student and very excited about moving away from home to go to university.
Your parents have given you $4,000 and you have a $14,000 student loan. Your parents have told you that $4,000 is all you get for the school year and you are not to phone home for more money.
At September 1, you had $18,000 cash ($4,000 + $14,000), $1,000 worth of clothes, and a cell phone that cost $200. You have kept all of the receipts for all of your expenditures between September 1 and December 15. The following is a complete list of your receipts.

On December 15, you checked the balance in your bank account and you only have $6,000 cash. You can't sleep, because you know there are some errors in your accounting records and that you will probably have to ask your parents for more money for the next semester.
Instructions
(a) Calculate your personal equity (defi cit) at September 1, 2014.
(b) Prepare a corrected trial balance at December 15, 2014. For each error identified, describe the error.
(c) Calculate your total expenses for the semester and your personal equity (deficit) at December 15, 2014.
(d) Prepare a personal balance sheet at December 15, 2014.
(e) Assuming you will have the same expenses in the second semester, will you have enough cash to pay for them?
(f) Are there any expenses you might be able to avoid in the second semester to save cash?
(g) Are there any additional cash expenditures that will need to be made in the second semester?
(h) Will it be necessary for you to ask your parents for more money for the next semester? Explain.

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Amount $1,600 400 1,200 2,800 600 1,500 1,500 250 200 1,000 500 450 ece Rent on furnished apartment ($400 per month) Damage deposit on apartment Groceries Tuition for September to December Textbooks Entertainment (movies, New clothes Cell phone charges Cable TV and Internet bill Computer Eight-month bus pass (September to April) Airfare to go home at Christmas beverages, restaurants) PERSONAL TRIAL BALANCE December 15, 2014 Account Cash Clothes Cell phone Computer Student loan Personal equity Rent expense Groceries Tuition for September to December Textbooks for September to December Entertainment expense Cell phone expense Cable TV and Internet expense Bus pass expense Airfare Debit Credit $6,500 2,500 200 100 $14,000 5,200 2,000 1,200 2,800 600 1,500 250 200 500 540 $17,690 $20,400