When the $17,500 cash is credited in the adjusted trial balance it would leave a zero balance for cash. When it is brought across to the balance sheet column, even though they may bring across the full $17,500 it will be in the wrong column. Since they started out with that amount for a debit, it would be noticed, since there was no adjusting entry for cash. They will easily be able to spot this error in posting to the wrong column in the adjusted trial balance, by going back and looking at all the previous columns. The effect on the financial statements would be that there would be no balance for cash on them. If this was the case, the cash account would be understated, as well the balance sheet would not equal out, and the net income would be off making the owner’s capital account understated as well