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Individual bank accounts were short €500 due to an online problem which was rectified by the banks before they opened.
Questions 1. Do you keep track of your cash?
2. Why might it be important to keep track of money?
3. The bank sends you a bank statement telling you what you have in the bank. Could this be different to the balance you have calculated?
Before We Begin …
Studying the cash account and cash book will help when preparing accounts section for businesses (see Strand 2).
Checklist
You will need: Calculator Ruler Pencil (HP4), blue or black pen
1 Introduction to Cash Accounts In this unit we will study:
1. A cash account: a financial record that contains all cash receipts (income) and payments (expenditure). The cash book has the same rules.
2. An analysed cash book: a record of a household’s income and expenditure during a particular period that is broken into different categories called analysis columns.
When we studied household budgets, we learned that a household budget is planned income and expenditure for a period of time, e.g. three months. A cash account/cash book/analysed cash book is a record of what the household actually received and spent, e.g. in the last three months.