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Control account reconciliation

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA FA – FIA FFA › Control account reconciliation

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  • December 28, 2017 at 11:43 pm #426662
    jgunel
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    Hi.

    It is given that the business is owned by Jean MacDonald. (because the example begins with “Jean MacDonald owns a shop specialising in the sale of crafting supplies.
    The following balances were extracted from her trial balance on 31 August 2017” )
    And in this practice question of control account reconciliation, additional information is given because the balances do not match. And it is said as :

    “Amanda’s account in the purchase ledger had been debited with £116 for goods returned to Jean, but no other entries have been made. ”

    As the owner is Jean, and if goods are being returned to her, then Amanda must be a customer, so it should be sales return. and double entry :

    Dr: sales returns
    Cr: bank/cash/receivables (am I wrong?)

    But in the answer sheet, the correction was noted as “Purchase return by Amanda” on the debit side of payables control account.

    I did not understand why it is so because if it was purchase returns it should by Jean herself. Then who is Amanda?

    December 29, 2017 at 7:18 am #426685
    John Moffat
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    Without seeing the whole question, it seems as though there was a typing error in the question and that it should have said ‘goods returned BY Jean’

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