At 31 May 2004 the debit balance on a Sales Ledger Control account was $18640. This balance
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At 31 May 2004 the debit balance on a Sales Ledger Control account was $18640. This balance did not agree with the total of balances extracted from the sales ledger. The following errors have now been found.
1. Cash received from debtors entered in the Control account included $400 in respect of a debt which had previously been written off. This fact had not been recognised in the Control account.
2. A debit balance of $325 in the sales ledger had been set off against an account in the purchase ledger. This transfer had been debited in the Sales Ledger Control account and credited in the Purchase Ledger Control account.
3. Cash sales of $1760 had been recorded in the cash book as cash received from debtors.
4. Cash received from K. Bali, $244, had been entered in the account of B. Kali in the sales ledger.
5. Credit balances in the sales ledger totalled $436.
Required
Prepare the corrected Sales Ledger Control account at 31 May 2004.
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