What type of Ledger Accounts are not carried forward to next year?
(a) Personal Accounts
(b) Real Accounts
(c) Nominal Accounts
(d) All of the above
Answers
Answer:
nominal account
Explanation:
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Answer:
The correct answer is nominal account.
Explanation:
Nominal account starts with zero for every accounting year. During the period, it collects all the gains and losses and returns to zero balance at the end of every accounting year by transferring or paying the amount or balances to a permanent account. It is a general ledger account with all expenses , incomes, gains and losses.
For example- Interest account, product revenue, cost of goods sold, compensation expense, utilities expenses etc.
Rule for nominal accounts:
Debit all expenses and losses
Credit all income and gains.
Personal accounts
Rule :
Debit the receiver
Credit the giver.
Examples: Accounts of customers, vendors, salary accounts of employees, drawings and capital accounts of owners etc.
Real accounts
It is an account dealing with the material assets of a business.
Examples: Asset account, liability accounts, stockholders' equity account etc.
Rule:
Debit what comes in
Credit what goes out