Help me I have to test...
Which of the following is the proper sequence for end-of-the-month work with the combination journal.
a. Complete the individual postings, total and rule the columns, prove the journal, complete the summary postings
b. Prove the journal, total and rule the columns, complete the individual postings, complete the summary postings
c. Total and rule the columns, complete the individual postings, complete the summary postings, prove the journal
d. Total and rule the columns, complete the summary postings, complete the individual postings, prove the

Some of the terms in here are book-specific. e.g. I don't know what a "combination" journal is even supposed to be. I also don't know what they're referring to as a summary posting. And I don't even know what they mean by "proving" the journal. All I can say is the (a) doesn't seem right, because regardless of what those things are, you'd have to total stuff before you can post it.

Also as a note, we are not here to just answer your homework problems for you. You at least should be including your idea as to what the answer might be.

If you actually read my post you'd see that I said some of these terms were "book-specific." That means that different textbooks can call things by different terms, and sometimes I believe these terms may be regional, but I am not sure. I have been teaching/tutoring accounting privately for 13 years, including online where I've seen many, many different textbooks from many, many different schools. And I have never run across the term "combined journal." That doesn't mean I'm unknowledgable about the subject! It means that out of all the different textbooks I have seen, I have not come across this term. Nor have I come across it in real life. If I haven't come across it in that many different textbooks, that means it's unusual.

It would probably also help if you understood the difference between "book" and real life. There are actually two different things, so what someone understands one place may not apply somewhere else. And they may be unaware that there's a difference. That's for future reference, before you take this attitude with someone else.

We're not magicians, nor can we be experts on EVERY single textbook that exists in the world. Speaking of the world, eh hem... you're the one from Italy. If terms can be different within the U.S. don't you think it just a little reasonable that they may be different in another country?? Give me a break! If you didn't let anyone know you were in Italy, that's your fault.

I don't appreciate the attitude that there's some kind of problem with ME because I've never heard of a journal by this name. You're the one with the lack of knowledge, because you obviously do not understand what I've just explained to you.

This was not about just not wishing to help you or answer your question. I answered because (a) I was informing you the terms were unfamiliar and considering I haven't run across them in all the varied textbooks I've used, I suspected they would be unfamiliar to others as well. You could have simply explained what your book is calling a combined journal. And (b), because no, we're not here to simply answer your homework problem for you, and I would have provided that information even if I hadn't said anything else. Giving someone a negative reputation for following the rules we have laid forth here is inappropriate. Perhaps the others you've seen answer questions like yours are also not following the rules. Just because they want to answer your homework for you doesn't mean everyone else has to do so!

Don't fault me because I have ethics -- fault the people who don't.

As for that donation, it's being returned.

I'm sorry for you. Thank you though

Wow she didn't specify for the public to answer her homework. She asked for help not for you to be rude. No one is perfect.