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How do you do an Adjusted Trial Balance to make both columns (debit, credit) equal?
An adjusted trial balance list all company accounts that appears on the financial statements | |||||||||||||
after year-end adjusting journal entries have been made. | |||||||||||||
Both the debit and credit columns are calculated at the bottom of a trial balance. | |||||||||||||
As with the accounting equation, these debit and credit totals must always be equal. | |||||||||||||
If they aren’t equal, the trial balance was prepared incorrectly or the journal entries weren’t transferred to the ledger accounts accurately. | |||||||||||||
We post accounts to the adjusted trial balance using the same method used in creating the unadjusted trial balance. | |||||||||||||
We take the unadjusted trial balance and add the adjustments to the accounts that have been changed. | |||||||||||||
The account balances are taken from the T-accounts or ledger accounts and listed on the trial balance | |||||||||||||
Adjusting entries are prepared at the end of the accounting period for Accrual Income, Accrual expenses, | |||||||||||||
deferrals, prepayments, depreciation, and allowances. |