How to Make a Trial Balance Entry on Excel. Businesses use trial balance sheets to calculate the monthly debits and credits posted in their general ledgers.

Although a running balance is commonly maintained on the same Excel worksheet as the debits or credits, you can also keep a running balance with figures that reside on different Excel sheets.

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The idea of preparing Balance Sheet is to summarize business assets, liabilities and owner’s equity (net worth) at a particular point of time. The Balance Sheet, together with income statement ...