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	Trial balance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In bookkeeping, the trial balance is a worksheet wherein all the balances of each ledger are entered in two columns, namely debit and credit.
		Trial balance is prepared in each financial period as a summary of the closing of the previous ledger.
		So the trial balance is also a tool to detect any errors which may have occurred during the double-entry system of the ledger.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trial_balance (173 words)

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	CCH Business Owner's Toolkit \| Trial Balance
		The trial balance is a worksheet on which you list all your general ledger accounts and their debit or credit balance.
		An adjusted trial balance is done after preparing adjusting entries and posting them to your general ledger.
		This trial balance, which should contain only balance sheet accounts, will help guarantee that your books are in balance for the beginning of the new accounting period.
	www.toolkit.cch.com /text/P06_1510.asp (392 words)

	The Accounting Cycle - 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A trial balance provides a check on the accuracy of the postings which occured during the period by showing that the total debits posted equals the total creditsposted.
		Thus, the trial balance is a test of the mathematical equality of debits and credits after all postings have been completed.
		Trial Balance Limitations: - It is important to remember that a trial balance's contribution is restricted to the proof of the equality of debits and credits.
	kalama.doe.hawaii.edu /hern95/pt035/Accounting/LEVEL_1-INDEPENDENT/CYCLE5.HTM (705 words)

	TRIAL BALANCE, 31ST DECEMBER - Online Information article about TRIAL BALANCE, 31ST DECEMBER
		The trading account may be variously regarded as the account recording the movements of goods which represent the stock-in-trade, and as a preliminary to (or a subdivision of) the profit and loss account.
		BALANCE SHEET as at 31st December 1906 Cr.
		The entries appearing therein are such as would be necessary to prepare the trading and profit and loss accounts from the trial balance shown above, and to bring the capital account up to date.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TOO_TUM/TRIAL_BALANCE_31ST_DECEMBER.html (1133 words)

	Tips & Tools
		An important part of closing your books is preparing a trial balance — in other words, a list of all of your bookkeeping accounts and the balance of each at the end of the period — to see if your books are still in balance.
		The trial balance spreadsheet contained in the attached file is designed to save you time and money in preparing the trial balance yourself.
		The trial balance spreadsheet is comprehensive — more than 80 items that need to be considered when reconciling your bank statement are already listed.
	www.amsouth.com /smallbusiness/tips_and_tools/tools/trialb_m.asp (298 words)

	Exercise: Adjusted Trial Balance for Apple Computer, Inc.
		The trial balance is dated the end of the period because the balances shown are the balances at that date.
		The schedule is not dated for a period of time because the trial balance does not report the results of operations.
		The statement of cash flows is not used to prepare the trial balance because the amounts listed in the statement are cash flows, changes in account balances, or items that are already reflected in the income statement and balance sheet accounts.
	www.swcollege.com /accounting/students/fam_journal_exer2a.htm (393 words)

	Balance Sheet and Trial Balance Do Not Match (Ver. 12 & 11)
		The balances on the Trial Balance and Balance Sheet are obtained using two different methods, thereby allowing you to "cross check" the figures.
		GLS compares the ending balances on the Trial Balance to the balances for the same period in the Chart of Accounts, as shown in Figure 1.
		While previewing the Trial Balance for the first month in which there are asterisks on the Trial Balance, click the account number of the first "Type A" or "Type L" account that has an asterisk next to it to drill down to the account.
	www.support.tabs3.com /main/R10984.htm (1913 words)

	MacNail Construction Accounting Software Answers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		trial balance is what you first put into a checkbook ledger.
		After statements are in, adjust the balance forward if necessary to make it reconcile properly.
		when starting a new ledger, the bottom 'running total' # is the trial balance for the new ledger-- type it into the balance forward cell.
	www.turtlesoft.com /GSTech/AcctAnswer/TrialBalance.htm (119 words)

	Trial Balance/Engagement Software Review - 2004 — Financial Planning Practice (The CPA Technology Advisor)
		When the software was initially introduced, it provided a simplified means of preparing trial balances by removing the need to manually create spreadsheets, and offered automatic calculations while ensuring standardization of the process.
		While all provide trial balance capabilities either as a primary role of the software or through integration with an included module, all but three (which are exclusively designed for trial balance) also offer advanced engagement management functions.
		Trial Balance Solution is designed to handle annual and one-time engagements, and offers thorough integration with Creative Solutions' other accounting and tax preparation software, including the company's engagement product, Engagement Solution, which is also reviewed in this section (see page 9).
	cpatechnologyadvisor.com /article/article.jsp?siteSection=16&id=317 (1137 words)

	Trial Balance
		The trial balance is calculated by summing the balances of all the ledger accounts.
		The account balances are used because the balance summarizes the net effect of all of the debits and credits in an account.
		In the above trial balance, the balances of Accounts 1, 2, and 3 are net debits, and the balances of Accounts 4, 5, and 6 are net credits.
	www.quickmba.com /accounting/fin/trial-balance (424 words)

	A Closer Look at the Accounting Cycle
		The income statement is prepared first from the balances of the revenues, expenses, gains and losses in the adjusted trial balance.
		The remaining account balances (asset, liability and owners’ equity) are used to prepare the balance sheet.
		The post-closing (after-closing) trial balance lists only the balance sheet accounts because all the income statement accounts were closed in the previous step.
	www.swcollege.com /accounting/students/fam_acreview_close.htm (2021 words)

	Journal of Accountancy: When do the provisions of SSARS no. 1 apply? - Statements on Standards for Accounting and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although SSARS no. 1 clearly excludes "other accounting services" such as preparing a working trial balance or assisting in adjusting the books of account, practitioner do not always agree whether a financial presentation is a financial statement or a trial balance or whether the accountant has "submitted" financial statements.
		If the accountant concludes a presentation cannot easily be identified as either a financial statement or a trial balance, he or she should modify it according to its purpose by adding appropriate attributes.
		A trial balance, however, is not always a satisfactory alternative because it may not include all the information a client needs.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m6280/is_n2_173/ai_11962201 (1376 words)

	Ch 5 Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To close income summary, see what the balance in that account is after steps 1and2.
		A credit balance would equal a profit while a debit balance would equal a loss.
		A Post-Closing Trial Balance is prepared after closing entries have been posted showing balance sheet accounts and their balances.
	www.nv.cc.va.us /home/egoldberg/211FAP17ch4notes.htm (453 words)

	Clearly Business - Clearly Bookkeeping.
		The trial balance contains a summary of the information that can be found in either the balance sheet or the profit and loss statement.
		Like the balance sheet, it is a snapshot of a company's accounts at any given time and like the profit and loss statement it covers the period from the first day of the trading period until the day on which the report is compiled.
		The real advantage of studying a trial balance is that you can see where monies have been spent and incomes have been received, as well as a company's assets and liabilities at a glance.
	www.clearlybusiness.com /insights/insights_report_reports_trial_main.jsp?_requestid=23045 (335 words)

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		Each pre-closing ATB will include balances of all proprietary SGL accounts (assets, liabilities, equity, revenues and expenses) for each appropriation/fund group for the fiscal year, to include all adjustments made prior to closing and those made as a result of the audit of the financial statements.
		The trial balances submitted to Treasury are the source data for the preparation of the Government- wide financial statements and the OPDIV financial statements are the source data for the preparation of the HHS-wide financial statements.
		Further, OPDIV auditors should verify, as part of the audit coverage, that the ATBs submitted to Treasury are the same trial balances used in preparing the financial statements.
	www.hhs.gov /of/policy/damanual/05-30.txt (2092 words)

	DacFacts
		The Trial balance derives its information from the Chart of Accounts and the Activity Report derives its information from the transactions that have been entered in the G/L. If you would like to use these reports as comparisons to one another you must follow these basic rules.
		If the Trial Balance and the Activity Report do no match, and you have determined that the Activity Report is correct, you need to make sure that all transactions on the Activity Report are marked as posted.
		Now print the Trial Balance and the Activity Report (again making sure they are for the same period and only one period) in order to verify that they match.
	www.daceasy.com /daceasy/support/faxes/factdtl.cfm?doc_no=4076 (1217 words)

	The Trial Balance - Pepe's Pizza Parlour
		The trial balance is an arithmetic check of the double entry system.
		The trial balance will fail to balance if both aspects of a transaction are not recorded.
		If the trial balance does not balance, then you should first check that there are no errors in the addition of each account, check that there is an entry in both a debit and credit account and that the same figure was entered for both the debit and credit entry.
	www.bized.ac.uk /stafsup/pizza/jan1.htm (311 words)

	Trial Balance. Buy now for $6.99. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The trial balance is the starting point for all financial statement preparation.
		The trial balance gives you a side by side look at all of your debit and credit balances in all of your general ledger accounts.
		If your debits and credits are do not total to zero then your trial balance is out of balance and the discrepancy must be investigated; which is much easier at the trial balance level as opposed to the financial statement level.
	digitalworktools.com /accounting/spreadsheets/trial_balance.htm (237 words)

	Trial Balance
		If the journal entries are error-free and were posted properly to the general ledger, the total of all of the debit balances should equal the total of all of the credit balances.
		If the trial balance is not in balance, then an error has been made somewhere in the accounting process.
		The more often that the trial balance is calculated during the accounting cycle, the easier it is to isolate any errors; more frequent trial balance calculations narrow the time frame in which an error might have occurred, resulting in fewer transactions through which to search.
	www.netmba.com /accounting/fin/process/trial (329 words)

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	Trial balance -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Trial balance -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		In (The activity of recording business transactions) bookkeeping, the trial balance is a worksheet wherein all the (A scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity) balances of each ledger are entered in two columns, namely (An accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing) debit and (Money available for a client to borrow) credit.
		So the trial balance is also a tool to detect any errors which may have occurred during the (additional info and facts about double-entry) double-entry system of the ledger.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Tr/Trial_balance.htm (191 words)

	Web CPA
		In this use, the trial balance is either developed or imported from an accounting system, adjustments are applied, and the resulting TB exported to the tax prep software to prepare a return.
		Engagement management software, either in concert with the trial balance application or as an adjunct to write-up and/or accounting software that is used for these types of engagements, is an important consideration for many practices.
		Rather, Engagement Manager’s trial balance features are macros that use Microsoft Word and Excel to generate the financial statements and other required documents and reports.
	www.webcpa.com /article.cfm?articleid=1084&print=yes (3295 words)

	# TRIAL BALANCE
		Trial balance prints each account displaying all transactions that have been posted
		Note: Trial balance can be printed anytime, but is generally printed monthly.
		Important: The trial balance detail report should be filed for audit purposes.
	www.bussoft.com /help/gl0080.htm (305 words)

	# AGED TRIAL BALANCE
		Aged trial balance prints a report of all or selected invoices displaying the aging for
		Aged trial balance can be printed anytime, but is general printed monthly.
		This field indicates if invoice history is required to produce a balanced end of month trial balance.
	www.bussoft.com /help/ap0080.htm (403 words)

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		The balance in Notes Payable is overstated by $1,500.fg.
		Miscellaneous Expense, with a balance of $1,320 was omitted from the trial balance.Yi.
		The balance of $5,250 in Advertising expense was entered as $525 in the trial balance.r Enter corrected amounts in the columns provided to prepare a new trial balance with debits equal to credits.
	www.sbea.mtu.edu /acwarrin/ENG4951/PatelVideo.xls (241 words)

	ARSB - AR Aged Summary Trial Balance Report
		Program ARSB, AR Aged Summary Trial Balance (Comb), is used to print a summarized aging report of open accounts receivable balances for a range of customers in all financial enterprises.
		The accounts receivable balances for this report are aged as of the last time program ARCA, Calculate Customer Aging, was run.
		It is in order by customer number and includes the customer number, customer name, and dollar amounts for the following: current amount, past due balance in four aging fields, balance as of the aging date, subsequent debits and credits, and present balance.
	www.ndsapps.com /webhelp/arsb.htm (457 words)

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