Mayor Accounts and Trial Balance Overview
📌 The Trial Balance is the summation of the debtor (debit) and creditor (credit) balances from all Mayor Accounts (General Ledger accounts).
⚙️ Before creating the Trial Balance, entries must first be recorded in the Journal Entries (Asientos de Diario), which document the financial transactions.
✍️ Mayor Accounts (T-accounts) are the working papers reflecting every movement from the Journal Entries, categorizing charges (debits) and credits.

Recording Transactions in Mayor Accounts
🏦 Initial entry: \50,000 moved to Banks (Debit/Charge) and \300,000 to Inventory/Warehouse (Debit/Charge), countered by a \$350,000 credit to Social Capital.
➡️ Transaction example: Lending money created a \ and a \̲" style="color:#cc0000">1,000 Debit entry in Miscellaneous Debtors and a \1,000 Credit entry in Banks.
🔄 The balance for Banks after two transactions is calculated as: Initial \50,000 (Charge) - \1,000 (Credit) = \$49,000** (Balance).

Constructing the Trial Balance
⚖️ The Trial Balance aims to gather the sum of all charge (debit) and credit movements from the Mayor Accounts to verify the Double-Entry Rule (Debit always equals Credit).
📊 For assets (like Banks), the final balance is: Initial Balance + Total Charges - Total Credits; this resulted in a final balance of \$249,000 for Banks based on the summarized movements.
📉 For liabilities (like Miscellaneous Creditors), the final balance is calculated differently: Initial Balance - Total Charges + Total Credits, ensuring the final amount reflects the debt owed.
✅ If the total debits equal the total credits across all accounts, the Double-Entry Rule is confirmed, validating the preceding journal entries.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ Understanding the Mayor Accounts is crucial as they aggregate the detailed activity that feeds directly into the Trial Balance.
➡️ Modern accounting systems often use auxiliary accounts instead of traditional T-accounts due to the high volume of potential movements in active accounts.
➡️ The Trial Balance is the foundational report from which key financial statements, such as the Balance Sheet (Balance General), are subsequently constructed.

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