Is loan a debit or credit in trial balance?

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A loan can be considered as a debit balance when the loan is given out by the business while it can be considered as a credit balance when it is taken by the business.

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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.

State true or false:

1) A Trial balance is an account.
2) A Trial balance is helpful for preparation of final accounts.
3) A Trial balance is most important document.
4) A Trial balance may be prepared on any date.
5) In Trial balance opening stock is recorded in credit balance column.
6) Both sides total of an account are taken in Gross Trial Balance.
7) Purchase account always shows debit balance.
8) A Trial balance is a List of Ledger balances.
9) A Trial balance does not ensure accounting accuracy.
10) A Trial balance shows only arithmetical accuracy.

Q. Fill in the blanks with correct alternative and rewrite the statements :

Income Tax appears in trial balance ________ column.
a) debit balance
b) credit balance
c) L.F.
d) Income

Q. If Trial Balance shows excess credit, suspense account will show a debit balance.

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

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