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The following selected accounts appear in the adjusted trial balance for Bender Company:
1 | .Accumulated Depreciation | 5. | Supplies |
2 | .Depreciation Expense | 6. | Accounts Payable |
3 | .J. Bender, Capital | 7. | Service Revenue |
4 | .J. Bender, Drawings |
Instructions
Identify the accounts that would be included in the post-closing
trial balance.
Post closing trail balance will include only the permanent/real accounts, which are assets, liabilities, and equity. All of the other accounts (temporary/nominal accounts) would have been cleared to zero by the closing entries.
In the given case, the provided accounts and there nature of accouts are as follows :-
S.no | Account name | Nature of account | permanent/temporary account |
1. | Accumulated depreciation | asset account | permanent account |
2. | Depreciation expense | expense account | temporary account |
3. | J. Bender, capital | liability account | permanent account |
4. | J. Bender, Drawings | expense account | temporary account |
5. | Supplies | expense account | temporary account |
6. | Accounts payable | liability account | permanent account |
7. | Service revenue | revenue account | temporary account |
As per above given explanation and provided table the accounts will be included in post closing trail balance are only permanent accounts those are :-
1. Accumulated depreciation
2. J. Bender capital
3. Accounts payable
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