Why do you prepare a Trial Balance?

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Why do you prepare a Trial Balance?..

Answer / chandu

trail balance is a statement, which is prepared based on ledger accounts closing balances.
trail is very important to know the arthemetical accuracy of business transactions.

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Why do you prepare a Trial Balance?..

Answer / suman

arthametic chek of all ledgers

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Why do you prepare a Trial Balance?..

Answer / teena sharma

Trial Balance is a list of balances extracted from the
ledger acounts at the end of an accounting period.

Since the balances in ledger accounts are effects of double
ntries, the total of debit balances should be equal to
total of credit balances.

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Why do you prepare a Trial Balance?..

Answer / sadhasri

As per double entry systems all the Debit entries has its
equalent credit entries.to know the correctness of the
books as per the above concept Trial Balance is
prepared.With the help of Triall Balance, P&L and Balance
Sheet is prepared.

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Why do you prepare a Trial Balance?..

Answer / vinay kumar

Trial Balance is prepared to know the arithmetical accuracy
of all ledgers.Where debit and credit should be equal.

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Why do you prepare a Trial Balance?..

Answer / jyothi.p

As name indicates,it is a trial on arithmetical accuracy of
ledger balances before preparing final accounts.Debit must
be equal to credit. on debit side of the trial balance all
assets & expenses and on credit side of T/B all liabilities
& incomes will consider.

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Why do you prepare a Trial Balance?..

Answer / prashanthi

to check the arithmetic accuracy of all the ledgers. only
if the debit balances total is equal to the credit balances
total we can prepare final accounts

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Why do you prepare a Trial Balance?..

Answer / u.uma bharathy

Trial balance means "we have to know the arthimetical
accuracy" of ledger. That's why we prepare the trial
balance ,its show the every debit balance is be tally with
the credit balance..

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Why do you prepare a Trial Balance?..

Answer / tapas ranjan das

Preparation of trial balance is the third phase in the
accounting process, after posting the accounts in the
ledger a statement is prepare to show separately the debit
or credit balance. Such a statement is known as Trial
Balance.

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Why do you prepare a Trial Balance?..

Answer / manoj kumar dash

trial balance is a picture of double entry,it eqallies all
debit items to credit items.

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