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Rectify the following errors:-
  1. Goods for ₹ 5,500 were purchased from Modern Traders on credit, but no entry has yet been passed.
  2. Purchase Return for ₹ 1,500 not recorded in the books.
  3. Goods for ₹ 2,000 sold to 'Geeta Traders' on Credit were entered in the sales book as ₹ 200 only.
  4. Goods of the value of ₹ 1,800 returned by Sunil & Co. were included in stock, but no entry was passed in the books.
  5. Goods purchased for ₹ 900, entered in the purchases book as ₹ 9,000.
  6. An invoice for goods sold to X was overcast by ₹ 100.

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The following trial balance has been prepared by an inexperienced accountant. Redraft it in a correct form:−
Rectify the following errors:-
  1. Goods for ₹ 5,500 were purchased from Modern Traders on credit, but no entry has yet been passed.
  2. Purchase Return for ₹ 1,500 not recorded in the books.
  3. Goods for ₹ 2,000 sold to 'Geeta Traders' on Credit were entered in the sales book as ₹ 200 only.
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