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Accounting for Cash &

Bank Transactions

Business Accounting
Differences between bank statement & cash book
Unrecorded items
1. Interest (on overdraft)
2. bank charges (for services rendered)
3. dishonored cheques
4. Direct debits

Timing differences

1. Outstanding/unpresented cheques (cheques sent to suppliers but not yet cleared by the bank)
2. Outstanding/uncleared lodgements (cheques received by the business but not yet cleared by the bank)

Business Accounting
The Bank Reconcilliation
Step 1: Revised Cashbook (through double entries)
PKR
Balance as per cash book (original) XXX

Less: interest (XX)


bank charges (XX)
dishonored cheques (XX)

Balance as per cash book (revised) XXX

Step 2: Bank Reconciliation (timing difference hence no entries required)

PKR
Balance per cash book (revised) XXX

Add: Outstanding/unpresented cheques XX


Less: Outstanding/uncleared lodgements (XX)

Balance per bank statement XXX

Business Accounting

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