Accounting

Paper Summary:

This paper provides a brief overview and description of some accounting practices. It discusses the basic set-up of a trial balance. It then looks into reliability, as a qualitative characteristic of financial statement reports. Finally the paper describes petty cash funds. The paper provides brief examples of a trial balance and a petty cash fund in order to explain how they operate.

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Trial Balance
Reliability
Petty Cash Funds

From the Paper:

"A trial balance is a list of a business entity's accounts with their ledger balances. The purpose of preparing a trial balance is to test the accuracy of the journalizing and posting process. The account titles are arranged according to the Assets, Liabilities, Owner's Equity, Revenue and Expenses and only accounts with balances appear in the trial balance. The accounts should be in their normal balances, Assets, Withdrawals and Expenses under the Debit side and Liabilities, Capital and Revenues under the Credit side. The total amount under the debit column should be equal with the total amount under the credit column. A difference would signify an error has occurred either in the journalizing or posting process."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Adjusting Entries (2007). Retrieved April 19, 2007, from http://www.netmba.com/accounting/fin/process/adjusting
• Trial Balance. (2007). Retrieved April 19, 2007 from http://www.quickmba.com/accounting/fin/trial-balance
• Petty Cash account (2007). Retrieved April 19, 2007 from http://www.elca.org/treasurer/congregations/pettycash.html

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