What is meant by undercast and overcast in accountancy?
Explain with some transactions and their corresponding
journal entries.

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What is meant by undercast and overcast in accountancy? Explain with some transactions and their co..

Answer / prateek

casting (totaling) errors in a journal are called error of casting. Now, total of the column can be taken has less than the actual total or more than it. if the total made by us is less than the actual total then it is said to be short-casted or under-casted and if the total made by us is more than the actual total then it is said to be over-casted.

suppose,the question says that the sales book is short-casted by Rs. 100 rectify the error?

ans.if the sales book is short casted by 100 then it will be posted with less credit of Rs. 100 to the sales account. To rectify the error following entry is passed:

Cr sales account by Rs.100

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What is meant by undercast and overcast in accountancy? Explain with some transactions and their co..

Answer / jayendra

overcast means to have any increase in bank balance of cash book . and undercast means to have decrease in the bank balance of cash book .
it will be also same for pass book balance.

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What is meant by undercast and overcast in accountancy? Explain with some transactions and their co..

Answer / byakagaba francis

an undercast then it means increase the adjusted cashbook with 100 to increse the figure.. hahahahahahaha. thank you

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What is meant by undercast and overcast in accountancy? Explain with some transactions and their co..

Answer / navdeep kaur

forecasting error

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