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If a purchase return of ₹1,000 has been wrongly posted to the debit of the sales returns account, but has been correctly entered in the suppliers’ account, the total of the:

Q: Answer-If a purchase return of ₹1,000 has been wrongly posted to the debit of the sales returns account, bu...

Purchase return is normally recorded on the credit side, but here it was wrongly debited to the sales return account, which is also a debit account. So, instead of crediting 1,000, we debited an additional 1,000. This causes a double error of 2,000 on the debit side.