Drawing account appears in ________ column of the trial balance.

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Debit Balance

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Credit Balance

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The correct option is A Debit Balance
Drawing is a personal withdrawal done by the proprietor. All personal drawings are debited to the drawing account.
Drawing account will always have a debit balance. Drawing account must be shown in the debit side of trial balance.

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In a trial balance, always the debit column should match with the credit column.

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1) A Trial balance is an account.
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Q. If the sum of the debit column equals the sum of credit column in a trial balance, it indicates ______________________.

As an accountant of a company, you are disappointed to learn that the totals in your new trial balance are not equal. After going through a careful analysis, you have discovered only one error. Specifically, the balance of the Office Equipment account has a debit balance of Rs. 15,600 on the trial balance. However, you have figured out that a correctly recorded credit purchase of pen-drive for Rs 3,500 was posted from the journal to the ledger with a Rs. 3,500 debit to Office Equipment and another Rs. 3,500 debit to creditors accounts. Answer each of the following questions and present the amount of any misstatement :

(a) Is the balance of the office equipment account overstated, understated, or correctly stated in the trial balance?

(b) Is the balance of the creditors account overstated, understated, or correctly stated in the trial balance?

(d) Is the credit column total of the trial balance overstated, understated, or correctly stated?

(e) If the debit column total of the trial balance is Rs. 2,40,000 before correcting the error, what is the total of credit column.

Q. As an accountant for a company, you are disappointed to learn that the totals in your new trial balance are not equal. After going through a careful analysis, you have discovered only one error. Specifically, the balance of the Office Equipment account has a debit balance of Rs 15,600 on the trial balance. However, you have figured out that a correctly recorded credit purchase of pen drive for Rs 3,500 was posted from the journal to the ledger with a Rs 3,500 debit to Office Equipment and another Rs 3,500 debit to creditor's accounts. Answer each of the following questions and present the amount of any misstatement
(a) Is the balance of the office equipment account overstated, understated or correctly stated in the trial balance?
(b) Is the balance of the creditor's account overstated, understated or correctly stated in the trial balance?
(c) Is the debit column total of the trial balance overstated, understated or correctly stated?
(d) Is the credit column total of the trial balance overstated, understated or correctly stated?
(e) If the debit column total of the trial balance is Rs 2,40,000 before correcting the error, what is the total of credit column?

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Drawing account appears in ________ column of the trial balance.

The correct option is A Debit BalanceDrawing is a personal withdrawal done by the proprietor. All personal drawings are debited to the drawing account. Drawing account will always have a debit balance. Drawing account must be shown in the debit side of trial balance.

The correct option is A Debit Balance
Drawing is a personal withdrawal done by the proprietor. All personal drawings are debited to the drawing account.
Drawing account will always have a debit balance. Drawing account must be shown in the debit side of trial balance.