Do purchase books have debit and credit columns?

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A purchase book is a special purpose subsidiary book that does not have debit and credit columns.

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Q. Rectify the following errors assuming that Suspense Account was opened. Ascertain the difference in Trial Balance.
(a) Credit sales to Mohan ₹ 7,000 were recorded in Purchase Book. However, Mohan's Account was correctly debited.
(b) Credit purchases from Rohan ₹ 9,000 were recorded in Sales Book. However, Rohan's Account was correctly credited.
(c) Goods returned to Rakesh ₹ 4,000 were recorded in Sale Returns Book. However, Rakesh's Account was correctly debited.
(d) Goods returned from Mahesh ₹ 1,000 were recorded through Purchase Returns Book. However, Mahesh's Account was correctly credited.
(e) Goods returned to Naresh ₹ 2,000 were recorded through Purchases Book. However, Naresh's Account was correctly debited.

Q. Rectify the following errors:
(a) Furniture purchased for ₹ 10,000 wrongly debited to Purchases Account.
(b) Machinery purchased on credit from Raman for ₹ 20,000 was recorded through Purchases Book.
(c) Repairs on machinery ₹ 1,400 debited to Machinery Account.
(d) Repairs on overhauling of second hand machinery purchased ₹ 2,000 was debited to Repairs Account.
(e) Sale of old machinery at book value of ₹ 3,000 was credited to Sales Account.

Q. Prepare the Purchase Book and Sales Book from the following transactions:

2018
Jan. 1	Bought from M/s. Uma Datt, Mumbai, on credit:
	1,000 Ragisters @ ₹ 80 each
	50 Reams Paper @ ₹ 250 per ream
	Less: Trade Discount 25%
	Add: IGST @ 5%
Jan. 2	Sold to Shri Dayal, Bengaluru:
	250 Registers @ ₹ 85 each
	5 Reams paper @ ₹ 300 per ream
	Charged CGST and SGST @ 2.5% each
Jan. 8	Bought from BILT, Delhi:
	100 Reams Ruled Paper @ ₹ 600 per ream
	Less: Trade Discount 15%
	Plus IGST @ 5%
Jan. 12	Sold to Gupta Bros., Delhi:
	250 Registers @ ₹ 85 each
	50 Reams Ruled Paper @ 700 per ream
	Less: Trade Discount 5%, charged IGST @ 5%
Jan. 18	Sold to Ram Saran Das:
	20 copies Double Entry Book Keeping @ ₹ 85 each
Jan. 25	Bought from Hari Ram, Delhi:
	1,000 pens @ ₹ 10 each
	Less: Trade Discount 15%
	Plus IGST @ 5%
Jan. 31	Sold to Rishi Kumar, Bengaluru:
	300 Registers @ ₹ 90 each
	50 Reams Ruled Paper @ ₹ 700 per ream
	20 Reams Paper @ ₹ 300 per ream
	Trade Discount 10%, charged CGST and SGST @ 2.5% each

Trial balance of Sagar did not agree. It showed an excess credit Rs 7,550. Sagar put the difference to suspense account. He located the following errors-

1) Sales return book was overcast by Rs 1,200.
2) Purchases book was undercast by Rs 750.
3) Goods returned to Mahesh Rs 1000 were recorded through sales book.
4) Credit purchase from Mahadev Rs 6,000 were recorded through sales book.
5) Credit purchase from Damodhar Rs 4,000 were recorded through sales book. However, Damodhar’s account was correctly credited.
6) Salary paid Rs 3,500 was debited to employee’s personal account.

Q. Pass the rectification entries for the following transactions:
(i) Repairs to plant amounting to ₹ 2,000 had been charged to Plant and Machinery Account.
(ii) Wages paid to the firm's workmen for making certain additions to machinery amounting to ₹ 1,340 were debited to Wages Account.
(iii) A cheque for ₹ 7,500 received from Sandesh was credited to the account of Ramesh.
(iv) Goods to the value of ₹ 7,000 returned by Prateek were included in closing stock, but no entry was made in the books.
(v) Goods costing ₹ 5,000 were purchased for various members of the staff and the cost was included in 'Purchases'. A similar amount was deducted from the salaries of the staff members concerned and the net payments to them debited to Salaries Account.
(vi) Credit purchase of old machinery from Sohan for ₹ 1,70,000 was entered in the Purchase Book as purchase from Mohan for ₹ 7,10,000. ₹ 30,000 paid as repairing charges on the reconditioning of a newly purchased second hand machinery were debited to General Expenses Account.
(vii) Debit and Credit totals of discount columns in the Cash Book which come to ₹ 400 and ₹ 370 respectively have not been posted to Discount Accounts.

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