Question

A sales clerk at Schackne Company correctly prepared a sales invoice for $5,200, but the invoice was entered as $2,500 in the sales journal and similarly posted to the general ledger and accounts receivable ledger. The customer remitted only $2,500, the amount on his or her monthly statement. The most effective procedure for preventing this type of error is to:

Answer 1

Answer: Use predetermined totals to control posting routines

Explanation:

Based on the information given in the question, the most effective procedure for preventing this type of error is to use the predetermined total to control the posting routines.

The sales clerk should generate the control total do that the transactions can be posted. This will then be compared with the items posted to individual accounts.