Given Each of the Following Errors,indicate on the Table Below

question 150

Essay

Given each of the following errors,indicate on the table below the amount by which the trial balance will be out of balance and which trial balance column (debit or credit)will have the larger total as a result of the error.
a.$100 debit to Cash was debited to the Cash account twice.
b.$1,900 credit to Sales was posted as a $190 credit.
c.$5,000 debit to Office Equipment was debited to Office Supplies.
d.$625 debit to Prepaid Insurance was posted as a $62.50 debit.
e.$520 credit to Accounts Payable was not posted.

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Definitions:

Cost Drivers

Factors that cause a change in the cost of an activity, such as machine-hours, labor-hours, or quantity of materials.

Activity Variances

Differences between planned and actual costs arising from changes in activity levels in various cost centers within a business.

Cost Drivers

Factors that cause a change in the cost of an activity, used to assign overhead costs in activity-based costing systems.

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