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O-LevelAccountingAccounting procedures7707/11 · May/June 2011 · Q71 Mark

Hassan maintains a sales journal, purchases journal, sales returns journal and a purchases returns journal. At the end of his first month's trading, Hassan transfers the total of each of these journals to the general ledger. Which entries will Hassan make in his general ledger to record these totals?

Aaccount to be debited: purchases returns, sales; account to be credited: purchases, sales returns
Baccount to be debited: purchases returns, sales returns; account to be credited: purchases, sales
Caccount to be debited: purchases, sales; account to be credited: purchases returns, sales returns
Daccount to be debited: purchases, sales returns; account to be credited: purchases returns, sales

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D: account to be debited: purchases, sales returns; account to be credited: purchases returns, sales

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Accounting procedures, O-Level Accounting (syllabus 7707). Multiple choice, 1 mark.
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O-Level Accounting, May/June 2011 Paper 1 Variant 1, question 7.

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