Retained earnings

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Retained earnings
How to get rid of this in the lists
My company’s program does not have this account

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You can’t get rid of this account because it show the net income at end of the financial year. retained earnings balance is revenues minus expenses equal net profit

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In the trial balance, the movement is supposed to appear only during a specific period and the result of the activity is not required.

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When net income (“the movement”) is closed at the end of the period, it has to go somewhere, and that is automatically retained earnings; you can rename the retained earnings account, or journal the balance to a different account, but in order for the accounting to balance there has to be an account that answers to this purpose.