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Completed General Ledger, Proving Cash, and Making Correcting Entries
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Proving Cash:
Determining that the amount of cash agrees with the balance of the
cash account in the accounting records.
*Completed monthly.
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PROVING CASH page 106
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MEMORANDUM FOR A CORRECTING ENTRY page 106
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CORRECTING ENTRY
A journal entry made to correct an error in the ledger is called a correcting entry
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November 13. Discovered that a payment of cash for advertising in October was journalized and posted in error as a debit to Miscellaneous Expense instead of Advertising Expense, $140.00. Memorandum No. 15.
JOURNAL ENTRY TO RECORD A CORRECTING ENTRY page 107
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TERMS REVIEW
proving cash correcting entry
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