Identify Which Error Will Cause the Trial Balance to Be

question 117

Multiple Choice

Identify which error will cause the trial balance to be out of balance.

• A)A $200 cash salary payment posted as a $200 debit to Cash and a $200 credit to Salaries Expense.
• B)A $100 cash receipt from a customer in payment of her account posted as a $100 debit to Cash and a $10 credit to Accounts Receivable.
• C)A $75 cash receipt from a customer in payment of her account posted as a $75 debit to Cash and a $75 credit to Cash.
• D)A $50 cash purchase of office supplies posted as a $50 debit to Office Equipment and a $50 credit to Cash.
• E)An $800 prepayment from a customer for services to be rendered in the future was posted as an $800 debit to Unearned Revenue and an $800 credit to Cash.

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Definitions:

ATC

Average Total Cost, which is the total cost divided by the quantity of output produced, representing the per-unit production cost.

Marginal Product

The additional output derived from the addition of one more unit of a variable input, holding all other inputs constant.

Marginal Cost

refers to the increase in cost when producing one additional unit of output.

Average Variable Costs

Refers to the total variable costs (costs that change with production levels) divided by the quantity of output produced.