The imprest account is a petty cash account.

Imprest Account in under loan and advance group

An imprest account is an account which allows the sum of money to be given as an advance payment to someone to carry out an expenses as the case may be. This type of account is usually retired in which the person who spent the money will analyse how the money was spent.

(i) An account into which a fixed amount of money is placed for the purpose of making change or minor disbursements.

(ii) An imprest account is one that always has the same balance; an exact amount of cash in deposited into the account for a known specific future purpose (such as an upcoming payroll), and the same amount leaves the account when the funds for that purpose are expended.

(iii) In the United Kingdom, a record of the transactions of a type of petty cash system. An employee is given an advance of money, an imprest, for incidental expenses and, when most of it has been spent, he or she presents receipts for the expenses to the accounts department and is then reimbursed with cash to the total value of the receipts.

debit all the necessary expenses

credit the appropriate cash account