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O-LevelAccountingVerification of accounting recordsOct/Nov 2022Paper 1 Q91 Mark

Saddique's trial balance failed to balance. The debit column totalled $12250 and the credit column totalled $12200. The following errors were discovered. No entry had been made for cash sales, $150. The total of the discount received account, $50, had been omitted from the trial balance. What were the totals of the trial balance after the errors had been corrected?

A$12250
B$12300
C$12350
D$12400

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About This O-Level Accounting Question

This multiple-choice question appeared in the Cambridge O-Level Accounting (7707) Oct/Nov 2022 examination, Paper 1 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Verification of accounting records and is worth 1 mark.

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