Correction of errors/Accruals and Prepayments

Imagine you're a detective in the world of accounting, and you've stumbled upon a mystery! A partnership has accidentally created a suspense account because their trial balance at the magical date of 31 December 20X2 didn't balance. As you dig deeper, you discover a clue: the balance b/d of £1,260 for opening inventory was sneakily omitted from the trial balance. Now, with your sharp detective skills, can you figure out what spell to cast to correct this error and its effect on the suspense account?

• Dr suspense £1,260

• Cr suspense £1,260

• No effect

Imagine you're a detective in the world of accounting, and you've stumbled upon a curious case. A partnership has cleverly entered a discount received from a supplier of £45 in the discount received account. They then made a sneaky move by debiting the payables with £45, and went on to credit the supplier's individual account in the memorandum payables ledger with the same amount, £45. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out the correct adjustment needed in these accounts to solve this financial puzzle.

• Cr payables £45

• Cr payables £45, twice

• Dr individual memorandum payables ledger account £45

• Dr individual memorandum payables ledger account £45, twice

Imagine you're a detective in the world of accounting, and you've just stumbled upon a mystery in the trial balance for the year ended 31 December 20X1. A partnership has accidentally debited van repairs of £240 to the vehicles at cost account, instead of the correct motor expenses account. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out the correct double entry to solve this puzzle.

• Dr suspense £240, Cr vehicles at cost £240

• Dr vehicles at cost £240, Cr suspense £240

• Dr vehicles at cost £240, Cr motor expenses £240

• Dr motor expenses £240, Cr vehicles at cost £240

  
  

Imagine you're a detective in the world of accounting, and you've stumbled upon a curious case. A sole trader, while reconciling the balance of the payables with the total of the list of individual balances in the memorandum payables ledger, notices a mysterious difference of £30. Upon diving deeper into the business records, our trader discovers that the total gross figure for purchases on one page in the purchases daybook had been miscalculated as £2,550 instead of the correct £2,580. As the detective on the case, which one of the following outcomes do you deduce will result from correcting this error?

• Reduce the balance owed to suppliers in the payables

• Increase the balance owed to suppliers in the payables

• Reduce the total of the list of memorandum payables ledger balances

• Increase the total of the list of memorandum payables ledger balances

A sole trader has realised that in recording the purchases for goods for resale, he has correctly debited £78 in the purchases account, but has credited this incorrectly as £87 in the payables. The ledger account entries needed to correct this are debit.............and credit.....................

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• Sales were more than purchases during the period

• HMRC owe the trader a refund

• Purchases were more than sales during the period

• The trader underpaid HMRC during the period

Imagine you're a sole trader who's just received a shiny new invoice from your favorite credit supplier for £480, VAT included. But, oh no! In the excitement, it's been recorded all wrong as follows:

• Dr Purchases £400 

• Dr VAT £80 

• Cr Receivables £480 

Can you spot the mistake and correct it?

• Dr Sales, Cr Purchases

• Dr Receivables, Cr Payables

Imagine you're a sole trader who's just discovered a tiny blunder in your books. You were supposed to jot down £500 for those shiny new office supplies, but oops! You scribbled £550 in the purchases daybook instead. What magical transformation occurs when you correct this slip-up?

• Decrease the balance owed to suppliers in the payables, like making a little debt disappear!

• Increase the balance owed to suppliers in the payables, as if by some strange spell!

• Decrease the total of the list of memorandum payables ledger balances, like shrinking a potion!

• Increase the total of the list of memorandum payables ledger balances, making it grow like a beanstalk!

Imagine you're a detective in the world of accounting, and you've stumbled upon a curious case while preparing the trial balance for the year ended 31 December 20X3. A partnership has made a puzzling error - they've debited office rent of £300 to the office equipment account by mistake. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out the correct double entry to solve this mystery.

• Dr suspense £300, Cr office equipment £300

• Dr office equipment £300, Cr suspense £300

• Dr office equipment £300, Cr office rent £300

• Dr office rent £300, Cr office equipment £300

Imagine you're a detective in the world of accounting, and you've stumbled upon a curious case. A partnership has cleverly entered a discount received from a supplier of £60 in the right account, the discount received account. But then, in a twist, they debited the payables with £60, and credited the supplier's individual account in the memorandum payables ledger with the same amount. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out the correct adjustment needed in these accounts to solve this puzzle.

• Cr payables £60

• Cr payables £60, twice

• Dr individual memorandum payables ledger account £60

• Dr individual memorandum payables ledger account £60, twice