Recording basic transactions and balancing the ledgers
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Balancing off a ledger account
Once the transactions for a period have been recorded, it will be necessary to
fin the balance on the ledger account:
1
Total both sides of the T-account and find the larger total.
2
Put the larger total in the total box on the debit and credit side.
3
Insert a balancing figure to the side of the T-account which does not
currently add up to the amount in the total box. Call this balancing figure
‘balance c/f’ (carried forward) or ‘balance c/d’ (carried down).
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Carry the balance down diagonally and call it ‘balance b/f’ (brought
forward) or ‘balance b/d’ (brought down).
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