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O-LevelAccountingVerification of accounting records7707/12 · May/June 2015 · Q81 Mark

Which error would be revealed by a trial balance?

Acheque for $78 entered on the correct sides in both W's account and the cash book as $87
Bgoods returned by a customer, $300, not entered in the books
Cgoods sold to Y for $650 correctly entered in the sales account and credited to Y's account
Dthe purchase of a machine, $3500, debited to the purchases account

✓ Correct answer

C: goods sold to Y for $650 correctly entered in the sales account and credited to Y's account

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Verification of accounting records, O-Level Accounting (syllabus 7707). Multiple choice, 1 mark.
Source
O-Level Accounting, May/June 2015 Paper 1 Variant 2, question 8.

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