If, on a trial balance, the total of the debits is $7,500 and the total of the credits is $7,419, the difference could have been caused by
A) An error in copying an account balance from the ledger to the trial balance
B) A transposition error
C) A sliding error
D) Posting only one side of an entry
E) All of these

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All of these errors could lead to a discrepancy between the total debits and credits on a trial balance. An error in copying an account balance, a transposition error (switching the order of digits), a sliding error (moving a decimal place), or posting only one side of an entry could all result in the totals not matching.

If, on a Trial Balance, the Total of the Debits