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Quick questions on Control accounts and bank reconciliation explained: H2 Principles of Accounting

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What are control accounts?
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A control account is a single general-ledger account that summarises a whole ledger of personal accounts. The two common ones are:
What is bank reconciliation?
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The cash book (the business's record of bank transactions) and the bank statement (the bank's record) rarely agree at a date, because of timing differences and items one party knows about before the other:
What is q1?
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State three items that appear as credits in a trade receivables control account. [3 marks]
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Explain why an unpresented cheque is deducted from the bank-statement balance in a reconciliation. [2 marks]
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A receivables control account balance is \30\,000butthesalesledgertotals but the sales ledger totals \3100031\,000. State what this \1\,000$ difference indicates. [2 marks]

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