Answer the Following Questions for Each of the Errors Listed

question 117

Essay

Answer the following questions for each of the errors listed below, considered individually:
(a)Did the error cause the trial balance totals to be unequal?
(b)What is the amount of the difference between the trial balance totals
(where applicable)?
(c)Which of the trial balance totals, debit or credit, is the larger
(where applicable)?​Present your answers in columnar form, using the following headings:Errors: (1)A withdrawal of $3,000 cash by the owner was recorded by a debit of $3,000 to Salary Expense and a credit of $3,000 to Cash.
(2)A $650 purchase of supplies on account was recorded as a debit of $1,650 to Equipment and a credit of $1,650 to Accounts Payable.
(3)A purchase of equipment for $3,450 on account was not recorded.
(4)An $870 receipt on account was recorded as an $870 debit to Cash and a $780 credit to Accounts Receivable.
(5)A payment of $1,530 cash on account was recorded only as a credit to Cash.
(6)Cash sales of $8,500 were recorded as a credit of $8,500 to Cash and a credit of $8,500 to Fees Earned.
(7)The debit to record a $4,000 cash receipt on account was posted twice; the credit was posted once.
(8)The credit to record a $300 cash payment on account was posted twice; the debit was posted once.
(9)The debit balance of $7,400 in Accounts Receivable was recorded in the trial balance as a debit of $7,200.

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Definitions:

Oedipus Complex

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.

Defense Mechanism

A psychological strategy used unconsciously to protect oneself from anxiety or to minimize distressing thoughts and feelings.

Superego

Part of the unconscious that consists of absolute moral standards internalized from one’s parents during childhood and from one’s culture.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that mediates between the demands of the id, superego, and reality.