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Q.What is trial balance ?

Puducherry TnboardTamil Nadu HSC First Year (DGE) Commerce Board 2022Subjective· 2mImportance★★★★★
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A trial balance is a statement showing the debit and credit balances of all ledger accounts as on a particular date, prepared to test the arithmetical accuracy of the ledger.

In the Tamil Nadu HSC Class-11 Accountancy syllabus, a trial balance is a statement prepared with the debit and credit balances (or totals) of all ledger accounts as on a specified date. Its key features and purpose:

  • It has two amount columns — a debit column and a credit column.
  • Under the double-entry system every debit has an equal credit, so if the books are arithmetically correct, the total of the debit column equals the total of the credit column. …

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