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Post-closing trial balance

The post-closing trial balance is a list of permanent accounts and their balances after a company has journalized and posted of closing entries.

The purpose of the post closing trial balance is to prove the equality of the permanent account balances carried forward into the next accounting period. Since all temporary accounts will have zero balances, the post-closing trial balance will contain only permanent-balance sheet-accounts.

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