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James extracted a trial balance from his ledger for the financial year ended 3 0 April 2 0 2 0 but it did not balance.

James extracted a trial balance from his ledger for the financial year ended 30 April 2020 but it did not

balance. He posted the difference to a suspense account and then discovered tthe following errors:

(1) A debit balance of RM320 on the telephone account had not been included in the trial balance

(2) The discount received of RM157 had been debited to the discount allowed account. The correct entries had been made in the suppliers accounts.

(3) A payment of RM258 for advertising had been entered into the bank account but the double entry had not been completed.

(4) A payment of RM453 for electricity had correctly been entered in the bank account but had been posted as RM435 to the electricity account.

(5) Cash sales of RM1,532 had been posted to the cash book but the double entry had not been made.

Required:

(a) Prepared the journal entries (with narrations) to correct each of the above entries. (15 marks)

(b) Prepared the suspense account. (5 marks)

 

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