Answer Key of Rectification of Errors 2
Answer Key of Rectification of Errors 2
QUESTIONS
1. Paid for Rent wrongly debited to miscellaneous expenses A/c. What should be credited in rectifying
Journal entry. [1]
(a) Cash A/c (b) Miscellaneous
(c) Rent A/c (d) None of the above.
2. Rs.100 paid as cartage for the newly purchased furniture was posted to Cartage. Which A/c is debited in
wrong entry? [1]
(a) Cartage A/c (b) Purchase
(c) Furniture A/c (d) None of the above.
3. The total of Purchases Book has been overcast. Which A/c should be debited? [1]
(a) Purchases A/c (b) Suspense A/c
(c) Creditor's A/c (d) None of the above.
4. Goods purchased for 5,000 were recorded as 5,500 in purchase book. Purchase A/c will be credited in
rectifying entry by: [1]
(a) 5,000 (b) 5,500
(c) 500 (d) 10,500
5. An Amount of 375 has been posted on the debit side of Commission A/c instead of 275. In the rectifying
entry Commission A/c would be: [1]
(a) Credited by 100 (b) Debited by 100
(c) Credited by 50 (d) None of these
8. Pass the rectifying Journal Entries for the following errors: [6]
a. Sales Return Book is undercast by Rs. 2,000
b. Goods worth Rs 2,400 purchased on credit from Vikram were entered in the Sales Book. However,
Vikram’s Account had been correctly credited.
c. An old machine sold for Rs 2,900 was entered in the Sales Book.
d. Rs 2,050 paid to Rohit, a creditor is posted to the debit of Mohit, another creditor as Rs 5,020.
e. An amount of Rs 500 due from Ramesh which had been written off as bad debt in previous year was
recovered and had been posted to the Personal Account of Ramesh.
f. ₹ 30,000 paid as repairing charges on the reconditioning of a newly purchased second hand machinery
were debited to General Expenses Account.
Date Particulars LF Debit Credit
10. There was an error in the Trial Balance of Ram Gopal on 31st March, 2018 and the difference in books
was carried to the Suspense Account. On going through the books, you find that: [6]
a. Rs. 540 received from Mayank was posted to the debit side of his account.
b. ₹ 100 being purchases return was posted to the debit of the Purchases Account.
c. Discount of ₹ 300 received was posted to the debit of the Discount Account.
d. ₹ 374 paid for motor car repairs was debited to the Motor Car Account as ₹ 174.
e. ₹ 400 paid to Naman was debited to the account of Manan.
f. Goods returned by Mridui Rs 225 have been entered in the Return Outward Book.
Pass the Journal entries to rectify the above errors.
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