Accounting 9706 · AS & A Level · Reconciliation and verification

Reconciliation and verification — practice question

Martina has drawn up the sales ledger control account shown below for August 2021. All sales are made on credit. Martina then compiled a list of all customer account balances at 31 August 2021 amounting to $10020$. She found that the records contained the following mistakes.
(a)[6]

Prepare a revised sales ledger control account.

(b)[4]

Prepare an amended list of sales ledger balances so that it agrees with the amended sales ledger control account balance in part (a).

(c)[2]

Explain how preparing a sales ledger control account helps to prevent fraud.

(d)[3]

State three types of error that a sales ledger control account will not identify.

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