This discussion addresses a common accounting query regarding prepaid expenses appearing with both debit and credit balances in the trial balance. The advice given is to net off these balances. If the net result is still a credit balance, the recommendation is to debit the expense account and credit the prepaid expense account.
14 September 2021
In the trial balance prepaid expenses are having both debit and credit balance. How I should treat it for the preparation of financial statements?