At the end of an accounting period, certain accounts are closed so they have a zero balance at the beginning of the new accounting period. The act of zeroing these accounts is called closing entries.

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Closing entries transfer revenue and expense balances to the retained earnings account. This process resets the temporary account balances to zero for the new accounting period. Recording closing ...