P & Co maintain a receivables ledger control account within the nominal ledger. At 30 November 20X0, the
total of the list of individual balances extracted from the receivables ledger was $15,800, which did not agree
with the balance on the receivables ledger control account. An examination of the books revealed the following
information, which can be used to reconcile the receivables ledger and the receivables ledger control account.
1 The credit balance of $420 in Ahmed's payables ledger account had been set off against his account in the receivables
ledger, but no entries had been made in the receivables and payables ledger control accounts.
2 The personal account of Mahmood was undercast by $90.
3 Yasmin's balance of (debit) $780 had been omitted from the list of balances.
4 Thomas' personal account balance of $240 had been removed from the receivables ledger as a bad
debt, but no entry had been made in the receivables ledger control account.
5 The January total of $8,900 in the sales daybook had been posted as $9,800.
6 A credit note to Charles for $1,000, plus sales tax of $300, had been posted to the receivables ledger
control account as $1,300 and to Charles' personal account as $1,000.
7 The total on the credit side of Edward's personal account had been overcast by $125.
Assuming that the closing balance on the receivables ledger control account should be $16,000, what is the opening
balance on the receivables ledger control account before the errors were corrected?
