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O-LevelAccountingSources and recording of dataOct/Nov 2020Paper 2 Q120 Marks

Dev owns a business selling furniture. The following transactions took place during August 2020. Transaction | Date | Details | $ --- | --- | --- | --- 1 | August 9 | Sold goods on credit to Petra | 675 2 | 14 | Petra returned damaged goods to Dev | 120 3 | 23 | Banked cash sales | 412 4 | 29 | Petra settled her outstanding balance at 1 August by credit transfer after taking a cash discount of 5% On 1 August 2020, the balance on credit customer Petra's sales ledger account was $940 debit. REQUIRED

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About This O-Level Accounting Question

Topic

This structured question tests Sources and recording of data in O-Level Accounting (syllabus code 7707). It is worth 20 marks.

Source

This question appeared in the Cambridge O-Level Accounting Oct/Nov 2020 examination, Paper 2 Variant 2.

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