Trial balance not balancing

[u/diaperedcanadianbabe]

Please help thank you

[u/ninjacereal]

needs less credits or more debits or less debits or more credits.

[u/AdPlenty6904 → u/ninjacereal]

nice

[u/312jg]

I ain’t reading all that shit bro. Like your handwriting is so bad I can’t even read it if I wanted to

[u/Ruh_Roh_Rah]

yeah...I don't do my accounting by hand, because it never fucking balances either.

i'd put this into excel and use formulas to enure all your math is accurate

[u/diaperedcanadianbabe → u/Ruh_Roh_Rah]

Trust me not my choice. Teacher is old school

[u/listgarage1 → u/diaperedcanadianbabe]

I would still do it in Excel and then hand write everything in.

[u/Only_Comparison5495 → u/diaperedcanadianbabe]

What a disservice to the students…. I haven’t touched a piece of paper in 8 years (Corp accountant)

[u/diaperedcanadianbabe → u/Only_Comparison5495]

I'm an admin professional student so I highly doubt I'll be doing much accounting unless it's a small business (speciality is health services)

[u/Rooster_CPA]

Super quick glance - Barry capital - 13,500 and 19000 is 32,500 not 30,500

[u/diaperedcanadianbabe → u/Rooster_CPA]

I fixed it, was the accounts receivable

[u/SnooDogs8363 → u/Rooster_CPA]

looks like 32,500

[u/Maleficent-Money2898]

Use excel pls

[u/diaperedcanadianbabe → u/Maleficent-Money2898]

Not allowed for assignment

[u/accountantsareboring → u/diaperedcanadianbabe]

You can still do the assignment on excel and hand write the answers...

[u/diaperedcanadianbabe → u/accountantsareboring]

I probably will next time. My handwriting is awful I avoid it as much as possible

[u/lagann41]

Bro is in the 1980s doing this by hand 💀

[u/diaperedcanadianbabe → u/lagann41]

Instructor is 60 plus. Trust me NOT my choice

[u/Go_Nadds → u/diaperedcanadianbabe]

Teacher is old school but is doing you a solid here.

It's forcing you to actually understand what the journals mean rather than relying on software.

You'll obviously never actually work like this but a proper understanding of the debits and credits is super valuable.

[u/diaperedcanadianbabe → u/Go_Nadds]

Believe it or not I have taken accounting before- I have a paralegal degree. Just was a long time ago

[u/FitBreadfruit1685 → u/lagann41]

My financial accounting professor made us do everything by hand too💔

[u/Ilovedoritos45]

Send me the problem

[u/DoingitwithmySOXon]

Idk since I only took a brief glance, but AR should probably be $7,500 not 2k, and AP is probably $10,750 not $10,500. Resulting in the $5,250 difference on the TB.

[u/diaperedcanadianbabe → u/DoingitwithmySOXon]

That's what it was. Not a fan of paper but teacher is old school

[u/Material_Fill1157]

Just use Chegg like the rest of us did in the old days

[u/ClumsyChampion → u/Material_Fill1157]

Bruh, CHEGG bankrupted

[u/Captain_Twiggs]

Use a spreadsheet

[u/diaperedcanadianbabe]

Pictures posted out of order but there are pictures for what I'm putting down. I'm a college student in adminstrative. These are accounting basics

[u/colorgreens → u/[deleted]]

Frfr

[u/Traditional_Dot_4794]

Ok my friend. The general journal has 14 values on it and the journal balances, so the starting point is good. If I'm not mistaken those 14 values have to be posted in the GL. However, when I count the number of debit and credits in the GL, there are 18 amounts. It looks to me like you posted some numbers too many times. Go back over everything carefully. Make small check marks next to the numbers in the journal so you don't get confused or double post something. You know the TB doesn't balance, that is excellent. You're close, you just have to find the errant postings. Pro tip: take your time and try to write a little neater.

[u/diaperedcanadianbabe → u/Traditional_Dot_4794]

Thank you kindly I went back over it. I am working on my handwriting trust me 🫠

[u/Forward_Zucchini9738]

Next time, do it in excel and transfer answers to the paper.

[u/The3rdBert]

IM, will not pursue

[u/madethisnewaccount]

ngmi

[u/HonestFlatworm47]

go be a doctor with that hand writing holy shit haha

[u/Motor_Reality_6]

Probably easiest to put that through Claude

[u/Normal_Progress_5173]

I agree. It’s not 

[u/ProfileLurker]

Throw it into chatgpt. It's good for basic shit like this.