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What is a trial balance?

What is a trial balance? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (accounting) A statement of the balances of all nominal accounts in a double-entry ledger, made to test their equality. The total value of the debits should equal the total of the credits any difference indicates that an error has been made.
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The spreadsheet contains over 80 common account titles in a trial balance format.
Each month, management signs off on the quality of data in the Department's trial balance.
The trial balance spreadsheet contained in the attached file is designed to save you time and money in preparing the trial balance yourself.
Drill down from the trial balance or any account to view source documents, double entries and allocations in every ledger.
The following new projects were approved: ledger, chart of accounts, trial balance and reporting.
This could put the trial balance out, which should never happen.

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