Questions from College Accounting


Q: What is the difference between a wholesale business and a retail business

What is the difference between a wholesale business and a retail business?

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Q: For each of the following accounts, identify whether the normal balance

For each of the following accounts, identify whether the normal balance is a debit or a credit. Also specify whether the account is a contra account. a. Sales Returns and Allowances b. Merchandise Inv...

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Q: What is the normal balance for each of the following accounts:

What is the normal balance for each of the following accounts: (a) Purchases? (b) Sales Discounts? (c) Purchases Returns and Allowances? (d) Sales? (e) Purchases Discounts? (f) Sales Returns and Allow...

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Q: In a cash receipts journal, both the Accounts Receivable Credit column

In a cash receipts journal, both the Accounts Receivable Credit column and the Cash Debit column were mistakenly underadded by $700. How will this error be discovered?

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Q: Why is it a good practice to post daily to the accounts

Why is it a good practice to post daily to the accounts receivable or accounts payable ledgers?

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Q: What does an X under the total of a special journal’s Other

What does an X under the total of a special journal’s Other Accounts column signify?

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Q: Record the following transactions in general journal form. a.

Record the following transactions in general journal form. a. Sold merchandise on account to D. North, invoice no. 4556, $2,515.25. b. Sold merchandise on account to NexStar Industries, invoice no. 45...

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Q: If a cash payments journal is supposed to save time spent writing

If a cash payments journal is supposed to save time spent writing, why are there so many entries in the Other Accounts Debit column?

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Q: Suppose we collected cash from a charge customer and the debit was

Suppose we collected cash from a charge customer and the debit was to Cash and the credit to Sales. How and when would this error be discovered?

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Q: Who issues a credit memorandum and why?

Who issues a credit memorandum and why?

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