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To prove the quality of the total debit and credit balances, accountants prepare an adjusted trial balance. If you have to prepare one and don't know where to start, we'll share a few basics in this article to help you out.
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An adjusted trial balance represents a listing of all the account balances after posting of all the necessary adjusting entries in ledger accounts.¹ The purpose of preparing an adjusted trial balance is to correct any errors and to make the entity’s financial statements compatible with the requirements of an applicable accounting framework such as international financial reporting standards (IFRS).
An adjusted trial balance is prepared using the same format as that of an unadjusted trial balance.
ABC Company | |
---|---|
Unadjusted Trial Balance | |
For the year ended December 31, 2019 |
Account | Debits | Credits |
---|---|---|
Property,plant & equipment | 152,000 | |
Furniture & Fixtures | 114,000 | |
Inventory | 6,400 |
Account balances are listed in the adjusted trial balance using either their respective account numbers given to them in a chart of accounts or using the balance sheet order by starting with assets, liabilities and equity first and then entering the income and expense accounts. You can find an example balance sheet and use our free balance sheet template.
Since journal entries are made using double entry bookkeeping process, thus totals of the debit and credit columns must match with each other. If the totals of the two columns do not match with each other it means that there is some error in making of journal entries or their posting in to general ledger.
Adjusting entries are made at the end of an accounting period to adjust ledger accounts so that they comply with rules of accrual accounting. Main purpose of adjusting entries is to match incomes and expenses to appropriate accounting periods.
There are five types of adjusting entries that are required to be made at the end of the accounting period. Accrued revenues, accrued expenses, deferred revenues, deferred expenses and depreciation expense require adjusting entries so as to accurately reflect the accrual method of accounting.³
There are two methods of preparing an adjusted trial balance.⁴
First, you can post the adjusting entries into the ledger account and adjust the ledger balances accordingly. Once posting is complete, you can
take the adjusted balances and list them on a trial balance. This method is similar to preparing an unadjusted trial balance as you are simply taking the account balances from ledger accounts and are listing them in a trial balance.
Secondly, you can use the unadjusted trial balance and can only add the adjusting entries to the accounts that are affected by the adjustments. This method is simple and easy to implement, however, only small businesses with few adjusting entries can use this method.
These examples will show you how to adjust an unadjusted trial balance looks like.
ABC Company | |
---|---|
Unadjusted Trial Balance | |
For the year ended December 31, 2019 |
Account | Debits | Credits |
---|---|---|
Property,plant & equipment | 152,000 | |
Furniture & Fixtures | 114,000 | |
Inventory | 6,400 | |
Accounts receivables | 12,200 | |
Cash | 18,000 | |
Long term Loan | 74,000 | |
Accounts Payable | 6,400 | |
Share capital | 100,000 | |
Retained earnings | 88,000 | |
Sales Revenue | 114,600 | |
Salaries expense | 52,000 | |
Marketing expenses | 14,000 | |
Interest expense | 8,000 | |
TOTAL | 383,000 | 383,000 |
ABC Company has $12,000 in salaries that were unpaid as of the end of December, as well as $8,000 of earned but unbilled sales. We will use the unadjusted trial balance of ABC Company and will pass the necessary adjusting entries in the trial balance and will prepare an adjusted trial balance.⁶
Account | Debit | Credit |
---|---|---|
Property, plant & equipment | ||
Furniture & Fixtures | ||
Inventory | ||
Accounts receivables | 8000 | |
Cash | ||
Long term Loan | ||
Accrued Liabilities | 12000 | |
Accounts Payable | ||
Share capital | ||
Retained earnings | ||
Sales Revenue | 8000 | |
Salaries expense | 12000 | |
Marketing expenses | ||
Interest expense | ||
TOTAL | 20000 | 20000 |
Account | Debit | Credit |
---|---|---|
Property, plant & equipment | 152000 | |
Furniture & Fixtures | 114000 | |
Inventory | 6400 | |
Accounts receivables | 20200 | |
Cash | 24400 | |
Long term Loan | 74000 | |
Accrued Liabilities | 12000 | |
Accounts Payable | 6400 | |
Share capital | 100000 | |
Retained earnings | 88000 | |
Sales Revenue | 122600 | |
Salaries expense | 64000 | |
Marketing expenses | 14000 | |
Interest expense | 8000 | |
TOTAL | 403000 | 403000 |
With an adjusted trial balance, necessary adjusting journal entries are incorporated in the trial balance. In the above example, unrecorded liability related to unpaid salaries and unrecorded revenue amount has been included in the adjusted trial balance. This trial balance is then used to prepare financial statements.
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