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LAS in Acounting 2 Week 2
LAS in Acounting 2 Week 2
Department of Education
REGION IV-A CALABARZON
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE OF BATANGAS PROVINCE
DR. JUAN A. PASTOR MEMORIAL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
TALAIBON, IBAAN, BATANGAS
Objective: After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. Describe the nature of a bank reconciliation statement;
2. Identify common reconciling items and describe each of them.
3. Analyze the effect of the identified reconciling items
4. Prepared a bank reconciliation statements
An accounting tool used by businesses and individuals to know the true balance of cash in a
bank account is the bank reconciliation statement. Under the adjusted balance method of bank
reconciliation, the balance per bank is reconciled with the balance per depositor’s books.
Credit Memo- are additions made by the bank to the account of the depositor. Examples are
bank collections and interest income.
a. Bank Collections collection of receivables made by the bank on behalf of the depositor.
b. Interest Income appears as an addition to the depositors' account given by the bank as an interest
to the depositors' account balance.
Debit Memo - are deductions made by the bank to the account of the depositor. Examples are
bank charges for returned checks due to no sufficient fund (NSF Checks), automatic debits, or
payment of bills made by the bank on behalf of the depositor and bank service charge such as for
printing, checkbooks, and mailing the bank statement.
Bank service charges - are fees such as check printing and processing that the bank deducts
from the depositor.
NSF (no sufficient fund) check - is a check that was dishonored and returned by the bank to
the person or company writing the check because that account did not have enough funds. Book
Errors - are items erroneously recorded by the company. For example, the company deposit
P20,000 but recorded it P2,000.
Deposit in Transit- amounts received and recorded by the company but not yet deposited or
the amount deposited after the bank's cut-off time.
Outstanding Checks - checks issued by the company to payees but not yet encashed with
the bank or cleared by the bank
Bank Errors - are items erroneously recorded by the bank. For example, a check deposit of
P10,000 was recorded P1,000.
the correction is
an addition of
Ᵽ9,000 (10,000-
1,000) to the
cash book
balance
8. A collection of Ᵽ5,000 recorded Book Error Deduct to book
in the company’s book as Ᵽ50,000. Note: The cash
The bank statement shows the book balance
correct amount of Ᵽ5,000 overstated; thus
the correction is a
deduction of
Ᵽ45,000 (5,000-
50,000) to the
cash book
balance
9. Charge for printing company Bank Service Charge (Debit Deduct to book
checks and service fee Memo)
10.Interest credited to the bank Interest Income (Credit Memo) Add to book
accoun
11. The bank statement shows a NSF- No sufficient fund (Debit Deduct to book
return check of Ᵽ500 by the Memo)
customer.
WRITTEN TASK:
TASK 1.
Identify whether the following independent transaction is a book or a bank reconciling. In addition,
determine the amount of the error and state whether the amount will be added or deducted in the
preparation of the bank reconciliation(use adjusted method):
1. Eagle Repairs received P1,500 from Jane. The bookkeeper recorded the amount as P500.
2. Nation Bank collected from the customer of Eagle the sum of P5,000 representing payment of
the said customer to Eagle. No entry was made in the books of Eagle.
3. The bank teller deducted CK 123 for P3,500 from the account of Eagle. The said check was
issued by Egles Company a different depositor of the bank.
4. The bookkeeper of Eagle recorded Check No. 345 in the Cash Disbursement Journal as
P5,205. The correct amount of the check was P5,250
5. The deposits of Eagle earned interest of P100 for the month. Eagle does not have knowledge of
interest earned until it receives the bank statement
TASK 2.
1. The bank statement for August 2014 shows an ending balance of Php3,490.
2. On August 31 the bank statement shows charges of Php35 for the service charge for
maintaining the checking account.
3. On August 28 the bank statement shows a return item of Php100 plus a related bank fee of
Php10. The return item is a customer's check that was returned because of insufficient funds
4. The bank statement shows a charge of Php80 for check printing on August 20
5. The bank statement shows that Php8 was added to the checking account on August 31 for
interest earned by the company during the month of August.
6. The bank statement shows that a note receivable of Php1,000 was collected by the bank on
August 29 and was deposited into the company's account. On the same day, the bank
withdrew Php40 from the company's account as a fee for collecting the note receivable
7. The company's Cash account at the end of August shows a balance of Php967.
8. During the month of August the company wrote checks totaling more than Php50,000. As of
August 31 Php3,021 of the checks written in August had not yet cleared the bank and
Php200 of checks written in June had not yet cleared the bank.
9. The Php1,450 of cash received by the company on August 31 was recorded on the company's
books as of August 31. However, the Php1,450 of cash receipts was deposited at the bank on
the morning of September 1.
10. On August 29 the company's Cash account shows cash sales of Php145. The bank statement
shows the amount deposited was actually Php154. The company reviewed the transactions
and found that Php154 was the correct amount.
Requirements: Given the above information, discuss each item whether it is a book reconciling or a
bank reconciling item. After the discussion, prepare a bank reconciliation statement.