Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781305088436
Author: Carl Warren, Jim Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 5, Problem 19E
After Bunker Hill Assay Services Inc. had completed all postings for March in the current year (2016), the sum of the balances in the following accounts payable ledger did not agree with the $37,600 balance of the controlling account in the general ledger:
Assuming that the controlling account balance of $36,600 has been verified as correct, (a) determine the error(s) in the preceding accounts and (b) prepare a listing of accounts payable creditor balances (from the corrected accounts payable subsidiary ledger).
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