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When any particular transaction has not at all been entered in the journal or in the book of original entry, it cannot be posted into the ledger at all, such errors are known as ___________.

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errors of partial ommission

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errors of complete ommission

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errors of principle

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compensating errors

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The correct option is C errors of complete ommission
When a particular accounting transaction is omitted to be recorded in the books of account, this is an error of omission. This kind of error are clerical error and happened due to negligence of the person responsible for accounting.
Error of omission may be due to partial omission and complete omission. In case of complete error, a transaction is completely omitted to be recorded.

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