Bank Reconciliation Statement 5
I n chapter 4, you have learnt that
the business organisations keep a record of their
cash and bank transactions in a cash book. The
cash book also serves the purpose of both the cash
account and the bank account and shows the
balance of both at the end of the period.
Once the cash book has been balanced, it is
usual to check its details with the records of the
firm’s bank transactions as recorded by the bank.
To enable this check, the cashier needs to ensure
that the cash book is completely up to date and a
recent bank statement (or a bank passbook) has
been obtained from the bank. A bank statement
or a bank passbook is a copy of a bank account as
LEARNING OBJECTIVES shown by the bank records. This enable the bank
After studying this customers to check their funds in the bank
chapter, you will be able regularly and update their own records of
to : transactions that have occurred. An illustrative
• state the meaning and bank passbook of a current account is shown in
need for the preparation figure 5.1.
of bank reconciliation
statement; The amount of balance shown in the passbook
• identify causes of or the bank statement must tally with the balance
difference between as shown in the cash book. But in practice, these
bank balance as per are usually found to be different. Hence, we have
cash book and pass to ascertain the causes for such difference. It will
book;
be observed that a bank statement/passbook
• prepare the bank
reconciliation statement;
shows all deposits in the credit column and
• ascertain the correct withdrawals in the debit column. Thus, if deposits
bank balance as per exceed withdrawals it shows a credit balance and
cash book; if withdrawals exceed deposits it will show a debit
balance (overdraft).
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5.1 Need for Reconciliation
It is generally experienced that when a comparison is made between the bank
balance as shown in the firm’s cash book, the two balances do not tally.
Hence, we have to first ascertain the causes of difference thereof and then
reflect them in a statement called Bank Reconciliation Statement to reconcile
(tally) the two balances.
In order to prepare a bank reconciliation statement we need to have a
bank balance as per the cash book and a bank statement as on a particular
day along with details of both the books. If the two balances differ, the entries
in both the books are compared and the items on account of which the
difference has arisen are ascertained with the respective amounts involved so
that the bank reconciliation statement may be prepared. Its format shown in
figure 5.5.
Particulars Amount
`
Balance as per cash book .......
Add: Cheques issued but not presented .......
Interest credited by the bank .......
.......
Less: Cheques deposited but not credited by the bank .......
Bank charges not recorded in the cash book .......
Balance as per the passbook xxxx
Fig. 5.2 : Proforma of bank reconciliation statement
It can also be prepared with two amount columns one showing additions (+
column) and another showing deductions (-column). For convenience, we usually
adopt this treatment.
Particulars Amount Amount
` `
(+) (–)
Balance as per cash book ......
Cheques issued but not presented ` ......
Interest credited by the bank ......
Cheque deposited but not credited by the bank ......
Bank charges not recorded in the cash book ......
Balance as per the passbook. xxxx
Fig. 5.3 : Proforma of bank reconcitiation statement (table form)
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DHERENDRA NATIONAL BANK MULTI-MODULE PACKAGE DATE : 30/09/2016
CONNAUGHT PLACE STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT OP.ID : GK
FROM 01/08/2016 TO 30/09/2016 PAGE NO. : 1
ACCOUNT NO. 03355
NAME : DEV PANDIT
KHADWAI, RUNAKUTA, DELHI-34
DATE PARTICULARS CHEQUE DEBIT CREDIT BALANCE + REMARKS
No. ` P. ` P. ` P.
Opening 50,782.30 +
Balance :
04/08/2016 DELHI PLA 356376 35,000.00 15,782.30 +
07/08/2016 TO SELF 356377 10,000.00 5,782.30 +
13/08/2016 BY CLG 10,673,00 16,455,30 +
13/08/2016 BY CLG 9,143.00 25,598.30 +
17/08/2016 TO SELF 356378 20,000.00 5,598.30 +
21/08/2016 BY CLG 25,808.00 31,406.30 +
26/08/2016 BY CLG 32,949.00 64,355,30 +
02/09/2016 To SELF 356381 30,000.00 34,355.30 +
04/09/2016 DELHI PLASTIC 356382 10,000.00 24,355.30 +
08/09/2016 ICICI 657755 6,074.00 18,281.30 +
09/09/2016 BY CLG 3,146.00 21,427.30 +
13/09/2016 TO SELF 356380 9,500,00 11,927.30 +
15/09/2016 BY CLG 5,320.00 17,247.30 +
15/09/2016 BY CLG 18,564.00 35,811.30 +
16/09/2016 TO SERVICE CHARGES 120.00 35,691.30 +
21/09/2016 TO SELF 356383 20,000.00 15,691.30 +
25/09/2016 TO SELF 356385 10,000.00 5,691.30 +
27/09/2016 BY CLG 16,198.00 21,889.30 +
FOR DHERENDRA NATIONAL BANK
ACCOUNTANT/MANAGER
Accountancy
Fig. 5.1 : Specimen of bank statement (current account)
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