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Sports Enterprises have individual accounts for their debtors in a debtors subsidiary ledger and have a debtors control account in the general ledger. The balance

Sports Enterprises have individual accounts for their debtors in a debtors subsidiary ledger and have a debtors control account in the general ledger. The balance of the debtor's control account on 1 May 2021 is R169 200. The following information was provided for the month ending 31 May 2021:

  1. Journals provided the following totals for relevant transactions:

For the month ended 31 May 2021:

R

Sales journal: Debtors column

762 000

Sales returns journal

6 300

Cash receipts journal: Debtors column

586 800

General Journal: Interest charged on overdue debtors’ accounts

2 100

General Journal: Debtors' balances written off as irrecoverable

2 700

  1. The debtors ledger clerk submitted the following :

List of debtors balances as at 31 May 2021 – debit balances

R

C Gale

31 500

H Bolt

132 300

G Hunt

182 700

I Khune

18 900

R Nadal

9 000

Additional information to be taken into account (not included in the above):

  1. No entry has been made for a credit sale of goods to C Gale for R 5 400.
  2. R Nadal’s account must be written off as irrecoverable.
  3. G Hunt must be charged R1 827 interest on his overdue account.
  4. A credit note issued to I Khune for goods returned was erroneously entered in the account of C Gale in the debtors’ ledger.
  5. The sales returns journal was undercast by R900.
  6. A receipt issued to H Bolt for a payment on account of R37 800 was recorded in the cash receipts journal but was not posted to his account in the debtors’ ledger.

Required:

Use the above information provided to prepare the following:

    1. The correct Debtors Control Account is properly balanced for May 2021.
    1. Reconciliation of the debtor's list with the debtor's control account for the month ended 31 May 2021.

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