The accountant for Fine Lines & More was hospitalised yesterday. The Senior Operations...

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The accountant for Fine Lines & More was hospitalised yesterday. The Senior Operations
Manager (SOM) called you to assist him with the accounts. He advised you that the trial balance
for April 2024 had a difference of $20,000 on the DR column, which was posted to the Suspense
Account. The Net Profit at that point was $48,200.
The SOM said he had ordered an investigation of the errors and he provided you with the
following errors his team had identified so far:
a. Prepaid insurance $5,700 was included in Other Expenses.
b. Payment of $3,300 made to D. O. Nut was posted in error to Don Nutthal account.
c. Cash drawings of $1,200 was posted as $2,100 to the correct accounts in the general
ledger.
d. Credit sales to P. Wiggan for $8,500 was credited in Accounts Receivable and debited to
Sales in error.
e. Incorrect postings to the general ledger were (i) Carriage Inwards overstated by $1000,
(ii) Rent Received was also overstated by $700 and (iii) Bad Debt was understated by
$300
f. Payment of $8,000 to a creditor was credited twice in the bank account but was not posted
to Accounts Payable
g. Motor vehicle expenses of $2,650 paid by cheque was only posted to the Bank account in
the general ledger
h. Discount Received was incorrectly transferred to the trial balance. It should be $880 but
$80 was transferred instead.
i. Opening Inventory was overstated by $1,500
j. Return Outwards of $2,150 was posted as a credit to the Return Inwards account and
debited to Accounts Payable.
REQUIRED:
a. Prepare the journal entries to correct these errors with narratives describing the type
of error being corrected [35 marks]
b. Write up the Suspense Account to show the error corrections and balance it off.
[10 marks]

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