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Cash Control Banking Activities
- K. Salvevold
- Accounting
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Protecting Cash
- It is important to protect cash from loss, waste,
theft, forgery, and embezzlement - Cash is protected through internal and external
control
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How would YOU protect your cash if you were a
business owner?
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Internal Controls
- Limit the number of persons handling cash
- Separate accounting tasks involving cash
- Bond (insure) employees who handle cash or cash
records
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Internal Controls (continued)
- Use a cash register and a safe
- Deposit cash receipts in the bank daily
- Use checks to make all cash payments
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External Controls
- Verify signatures on checks
- Maintain records of transactions
- Use a bank
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Advantages of Using a Bank
- Minimizes the amount of cash that must be kept on
hand - Provides a double record of all bank transactions
- one by the business
- one by the bank
- Helps a company safeguard its cash by using a
bank as a depository and clearinghouse for checks
received and written
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Using A Checking Account
- Allows a person or business to deposit cash and
to write checks against the account balance - A signature card contains the signature(s) of the
person(s) authorized to write checks on the
account - Printed checks are packaged together in
checkbooks
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Parts of a Check
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Writing Checks
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Deposits
- Most businesses make daily deposits
- businesses do not like to keep a lot of cash on
hand (internal control) - Deposits are accompanied by a deposit slip
- gives the depositor and the bank a detailed record
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Making Deposits to an Account
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Recording Deposits
Leave the rest of the check stub blank until it
is time to write the next check.
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Checking Your Understanding
- Why is it important to protect cash?
- What internal controls does a business use to
protect cash? - What external controls does a business use to
protect cash? - What is the ABA number and where is it located on
a check? - What is the process for writing checks?
- What is the process for making a deposit?
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