• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Free ACCA & CIMA online courses from OpenTuition

Free ACCA & CIMA online courses from OpenTuition

Free Notes, Lectures, Tests and Forums for ACCA and CIMA exams

  • ACCA
  • CIMA
  • FIA
  • OBU
  • Books
  • Forums
  • Ask AI
  • Search
  • Register
  • Login
  • ACCA Forums
  • Ask ACCA Tutor
  • CIMA Forums
  • Ask CIMA Tutor
  • FIA
  • OBU
  • Buy/Sell Books
  • All Forums
  • Latest Topics

20% off ACCA & CIMA Books

OpenTuition recommends the new interactive BPP books for September 2025 exams.
Get your discount code >>

discounts received

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA FA – FIA FFA › discounts received

  • This topic has 8 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 8 years ago by John Moffat.
Viewing 9 posts - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • May 17, 2017 at 9:21 am #386614
    iloveaccountancy
    Member
    • Topics: 119
    • Replies: 111
    • ☆☆☆

    Hi John

    I was looking through some corrections of an ACCA practice exam and on a question about ledger balances (where you add them up) they have written ‘discounts received expense’. I am just wondering why they have put the word expense there?

    Also, could you help clarify something that is confusing me? Both discounts allowed and discounts received are debit balances. why is that (i.e. what is the logic behind that?)

    Thank you in advance for any help you give.

    May 17, 2017 at 2:41 pm #386653
    John Moffat
    Keymaster
    • Topics: 57
    • Replies: 54696
    • ☆☆☆☆☆

    Discounts received are not an expense – they are income.

    Also, discounts received will be a credit balance, not a debit balance!

    Without seeing the actual question, I don’t know who has put the corrections you mention, or why 🙂

    May 17, 2017 at 6:20 pm #386702
    iloveaccountancy
    Member
    • Topics: 119
    • Replies: 111
    • ☆☆☆

    Hi John,

    thanks for your response. it is an official ACCA practice exam so I am not sure I am allowed to type it here. may i retype it here with some details altered? alternatively can i email you a screenshot?

    May 17, 2017 at 8:10 pm #386721
    John Moffat
    Keymaster
    • Topics: 57
    • Replies: 54696
    • ☆☆☆☆☆

    By all means type it here 🙂

    May 21, 2017 at 5:28 pm #387271
    iloveaccountancy
    Member
    • Topics: 119
    • Replies: 111
    • ☆☆☆

    Hi John sorry about the delay in responding. Here is the question:

    Mary has the following ledger balances in her general ledger:
    $
    Capital 6260
    Cash at bank 890
    Discounts allowed 1500
    Discounts received 2300
    Expenses 15910
    Non-current assets (carrying amount) 31845
    Opening inventory 4820
    Purchases 71470
    Payables 6930
    Receivables 15870
    Sales 126,970

    What is the balance required in a suspense account to make Mary’s trial balance agree?

    -$155 Cr
    -$155 Dr
    -$1445 Cr
    -$1455 Dr

    correct answer $155 Dr

    Mary’s trial balance looks like this:

    Capital 6260 CR
    Cash at bank 890 DR
    Discounts allowed 1500 DR
    Discounts received (left blank)
    Expenses 2300 CR
    Non-current assets (carrying amount) 31845 DR
    Opening inventory 4820 DR
    Purchases 71470 DR
    Payables 6930 CR
    Receivables 15870 DR
    Sales 126,970 CR

    total DR: 142305, total CR: 142460
    155Dr
    =Total Dr: 142460, Total CR: 142460

    May 21, 2017 at 7:25 pm #387313
    John Moffat
    Keymaster
    • Topics: 57
    • Replies: 54696
    • ☆☆☆☆☆

    On the original trial balance, the debits are less than the credits by 155.
    So there will be a debit balance on the suspense account of 155 to make the trial balance add up OK.

    This seems to be all that the question asked, and so the answer is indeed B.

    What isn’t asked for is to identify where the mistake was that caused the trial balance not to balance. It could have been a mistake on the discount received account (which is currently a credit of 2,300). If the mistake was there, then we would need to debit the discounts received account and credit the suspense account with 155 to correct it.

    Have you watched my free lecture on suspense accounts? The lectures are a complete free course for Paper F3 and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well.

    May 22, 2017 at 10:14 am #387407
    iloveaccountancy
    Member
    • Topics: 119
    • Replies: 111
    • ☆☆☆

    Hi John

    thank you for your response. I understand we just have to assign each balance to the correct side of the t-account and add them up to find where the difference is in the totals.

    however this part confuses me:

    Discounts allowed 1500 DR
    Discounts received (left blank)
    Expenses 2300 CR

    I think that ‘Discounts Allowed’ is an expense, so debit balance. But why have they left Discounts Received blank, then put the discounts received figure by Expenses? I thought maybe they were suggesting that the Discounts Received were an expense. Also they have not included the Expenses figure.

    I have copied the question and the answers exactly as they have written them. Did they just make a typing error in the answers

    May 22, 2017 at 10:16 am #387408
    iloveaccountancy
    Member
    • Topics: 119
    • Replies: 111
    • ☆☆☆

    by the way, the “(left blank)” is my addition, they have just not shown any figure there, hence why I wrote that to indicate that

    May 22, 2017 at 5:14 pm #387472
    John Moffat
    Keymaster
    • Topics: 57
    • Replies: 54696
    • ☆☆☆☆☆

    The answer B is correct (for the reasons I explained in my previous answer).

    Why on earth they have typed out a new trial balance I have no idea (because there is no need for it) and it does seem that they have made a typing error in it anyway. Discount received is never an expense 🙂

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 9 posts - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)
  • The topic ‘discounts received’ is closed to new replies.

Primary Sidebar

Donate
If you have benefited from our materials, please donate

ACCA News:

ACCA My Exam Performance for non-variant

Applied Skills exams is available NOW

ACCA Options:  “Read the Mind of the Marker” articles

Subscribe to ACCA’s Student Accountant Direct

ACCA CBE 2025 Exams

How was your exam, and what was the exam result?

BT CBE exam was.. | MA CBE exam was..
FA CBE exam was.. | LW CBE exam was..

Donate

If you have benefited from OpenTuition please donate.

PQ Magazine

Latest Comments

  • Bimasha@123 on Discounted Cash Flow Techniques – ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM)
  • John Moffat on AA Chapter 7 Questions
  • John Moffat on FA Chapter 12 Questions Sales Tax
  • Raihanbabu on AA Chapter 7 Questions
  • PhantomOne on FA Chapter 12 Questions Sales Tax

Copyright © 2025 · Support · Contact · Advertising · OpenLicense · About · Sitemap · Comments · Log in