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Bisect Accounting Statements

Finds the date where Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss stop agreeing by halving the range. No ledger effect.

In detail

Bisect Accounting Statements is a diagnostic tool for the day the Trial Balance stops balancing or the Balance Sheet profit differs from the Profit and Loss. You give it a date range; it computes both statements for the whole range, then for each half, and keeps going into the half that shows the difference until it reaches a single day. It posts nothing. Finding a Rs 100 difference in a year of 174 Journal Entries by hand means reading every one; the bisect finds the day in a dozen steps, and the General Ledger for that day shows the voucher. It writes Bisect Nodes as it works.

Formula

Difference = Profit per Balance Sheet (closing equity - opening equity) - Profit per Profit and Loss, for the range

How to record it in BRAccount

  1. 01Search Bisect Accounting Statements in the search bar and open it.
  2. 02Pick the company and set From Date and To Date around the suspected period.
  3. 03Click Bisect Left or Bisect Right to step, or let it run to the end.
  4. 04Read the current node: the date range and the differences.
  5. 05When the range is one day, open the General Ledger for that date and fix the voucher.

When to use it

Open Accounts > Bisect Accounting Statements when the trial balance is out.

Example from the demo books

Trace a Rs 100 difference to a single day in Bhadra.