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Trial Balance - Account Type 'Equity'
I am trying to understand how figures on the Trial Balance report are derived (and I apologise, I am not an accountant).
We have an account of type 'Equity' called 'Dividends' - according to my Finance Manager this is meant to be the accumulated Profit for the company. He was told that we don't have to 'close down' each year in NetSuite (as he has in previous systems) and so he doesn't manually transfer the accumulated Profit from the closed year to the next.
This account shows with a value of over £2m in the Trial Balance report (which I assume is 'correct' as this is the figure the Finance Manager is expecting to see):
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