Usually you would only use cash to pay for items that cost very little, e.g. newspapers, or a coffee in Costa, or bread and milk in your local SuperValu. Even parking is now paid by text or online. Interestingly, during the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of contactless transactions by cards increased for smaller items, e.g. newspapers.
This time when we avail of opening cash, a household can avail of an overdraft (money borrowed from the banks).
• The balance can be on the debit where you have money in the bank. • The balance can be on the credit where you are overdrawn (overdraft).
EXAM PREPARATION!
State ‘analysed cash book’. Explain it and Apply it to another unit.
Let’s look at an example from the Walsh household. Example
1. Is it cash in/receipts or cash out/payments? Insert a tick in the appropriate column. 2. Is it by cash (c) or by bank (b)?
Transactions
01 Jan Opening cash balance €100 (c) 01 Jan Opening bank balance €120 (b)
02 Jan Received wages €850 by Paypath (b) 03 Jan Lotto win €100 – cash from shop assistant (c) 03 Jan Paid for concert tickets by visa debit €100 (b) 04 Jan Paid for groceries €50 cash (c) 09 Jan Paid for school books €150 by debit card (b) 11 Jan Received child benefit in cash €120 (c) 16 Jan Paid for electricity €145 by direct debit with BOI (b) 17 Jan Paid for diesel €30 by cash (c) 19 Jan Paid for heating €440 by Visa debit (b)
RULE
Debit = cash in Credit = cash out Analysed: Enter every figure for transactions into total column and an analysed column.