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John Moffat.
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- May 1, 2017 at 3:26 pm #384456
Hi John and everyone else,
I am abit confused. Looking at the ACC website it states that suspense accounts are not used for errors of omission:
yet here is a question 26 for the F3 specimen paper:
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Q’s trial balance failed to agree and a suspense account was opened for the difference. Q does not keep receivables and payables control accounts. The following errors were found in Q’s accounting records:(1) In recording an issue of shares at par, cash received of $333,000 was credited to the ordinary share capital account as $330,000
(2) Cash of $2,800 paid for plant repairs was correctly accounted for in the cash book but was credited to the plant asset account
(3) The petty cash book balance of $500 had been omitted from the trial balance
(4) A cheque for $78,400 paid for the purchase of a motor car was debited to the motor vehicles account as $87,400Which of the errors will require an entry to the suspense account to correct them?
***According to the official answers, all four will require the use of a suspense account. What I do not understand is why (3)- which I think is an act of omission- would require the use of the suspense account.
I would really appreciate if you could point out what I am missing here. Thank you.
May 1, 2017 at 6:06 pm #384481An error of omission is where there has been no debit and no credit – where an entry has been missed out completely. For this there is no entry in the suspense account, because the suspense account is only relevant when the debits do not equal the credits.
In this example, the debits and credits will have been entered correctly, but if the balance on any account is not listed in the trial balance then the trial balance will not balance. So a suspense account will be needed. (Missing out one of the balances is not called an error of omission).
I do suggest that you watch my free lectures on this. The lectures are a complete free course for Paper F3 and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well.
May 4, 2017 at 6:14 pm #384873Thank you so much for the clarification John. I now see what caused my confusion. I definitely intend to make more use of your video lectures and all the other excellent resources on this website for my revision. Thanks again!
May 5, 2017 at 5:58 am #384894You are welcome 🙂
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