Master in Accounts & high court Advocate
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Joined December 2011
Opening stock is usually forward from the previous year. So the opening stock account balance will be raised when opening stock is carried forward and hence it will credited. But trading account is debited because opening stock is taken out of trading account only while carrying forward to next year.
entries.
Opening stock:-
Trading account debit and opening stock credit in General Journal book
for cloing stock:-
closing stock debit and trading account is credit in General journal book of accounts