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Suspense Accounts

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  • March 27, 2022 at 12:58 pm #652027
    Joanne94
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    When Peter extracts a trial balance at the end of his financial year, total debits are $213,852 and total credits are $212,390. A suspense account is created for the difference.

    The following errors have been identified:

    A payment of stationery $440 was Debited to the stationery account as $780.

    Discounts unexpectedly collected by customers have been recorded as a credit.

    Other cash income of $3,742 has only been recorded in the cash ledger account.

    Correct the entries and show how the suspense account is cleared.

    For discounts, the working is.,

    Entry recorded. Cr Trade.
    Receivables$
    1310
    Cr Sales.
    $1310

    Should have been

    Dr Sales. $1310. Cr Trade.
    Receivables $1310

    Correcting entry

    Dr Sales. $2620. Cr Suspense.
    $2620

    (A debit of $1,310 reverses the initial $1,310 credit entry made in error. A further debit of $1,310 records the transaction correctly )

    Please explain the workings for discounts, There is no amount for discounts allowed.

    Thank you!

    March 27, 2022 at 6:15 pm #652063
    John Moffat
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    As I do explain in my free notes and lectures, under IAS15 we no longer use a discounts allowed account when giving discounts to customers.

    Here the customer has taken a discount when we weren’t expecting them to (and presumably we were happy for them to take the discount). The entry should therefore have been Dr Sales and Cr Receivables. Given that they mistakenly credited sales instead of debiting, the correction needed is as explained in what you have typed 🙂

    April 1, 2022 at 11:05 am #652502
    Joanne94
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    Hello John,

    Thank you for reiterating about the discounts allowed account. However, (please excuse silly question) I still don’t understand how the figure $1,310 is got. For receivables and sales. It’s not provided in the question and only became clear in the question Solution. Please guide where I’m wrong.

    Thank you!!

    April 1, 2022 at 7:30 pm #652539
    John Moffat
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    The initial balance on the suspense account is 213852 – 212390 = 1462 credit

    After dealing with the correction for the other two items, the balance becomes 1462 – 340 – 3742 = 2620 debit, so this is remaining amount that needs correcting.

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