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A petty cash receipt is an invoice or receipt for items or services bought out of petty cash. Petty cash is the small amount of cash usually held by businesses for one off small items.
A petty cash book is a book of vouchers which are prepared each time a disbursement is made from petty cash. The voucher would show the date, amount, recipient, purpose and general ledger account number relating to the expense. The person giving out the petty cash and the person receiving the petty cash would sign the voucher and any supporting documentation (such as receipts) would be attached.
Maintaining a petty cash book can be simple as long as a person makes sure to keep up on transactions regularly. Most petty cash books are maintained by listing receipts and their purchase purpose along with the date and a brief explanation.
so you don't have to write out a cheque for a small amount of money
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A petty cash receipt is an invoice or receipt for items or services bought out of petty cash. Petty cash is the small amount of cash usually held by businesses for one off small items.
petty cash book is the book which is used for the purpose of recording the payment of petty cash expenses.
so you can keep cash
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. The best example is Petty Cash. To start a Petty Cash fund, a firm initially writes and cashes a check for $250 (Dr. Petty Cash, Cr. Operating Account Cash), and puts the $250 cash in the office Petty Cash box. When a small purchase is made by an employee for the office (for stamps, etc), the employee is reimbursed from the Petty Cash box, and puts her receipt for the amount she was reimbursed in the Petty Cash box. The total in the box, between cash and receipts, is always $250. When the amount of petty cash left on hand in the office gets low and the Petty Cash funds must be replenished, the company writes and cashes a check for an amount equal to the total of all the receipts in the box, debiting the appropriate expense accounts and crediting Operating Account Cash. Cash in the amount of the check goes into the Petty Cash box, to bring the total Petty Cash back up to $250. No entry is made to the Petty Cash account since its balance should always be the original amount funded (in this example, $250).
so you can keep cash
A petty cash book is a book of vouchers which are prepared each time a disbursement is made from petty cash. The voucher would show the date, amount, recipient, purpose and general ledger account number relating to the expense. The person giving out the petty cash and the person receiving the petty cash would sign the voucher and any supporting documentation (such as receipts) would be attached.
A petty cash book is a book of vouchers which are prepared each time a disbursement is made from petty cash. The voucher would show the date, amount, recipient, purpose and general ledger account number relating to the expense. The person giving out the petty cash and the person receiving the petty cash would sign the voucher and any supporting documentation (such as receipts) would be attached.
Maintaining a petty cash book can be simple as long as a person makes sure to keep up on transactions regularly. Most petty cash books are maintained by listing receipts and their purchase purpose along with the date and a brief explanation.
so you don't have to write out a cheque for a small amount of money
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petty cash voucher is released by the handler of the funds to support every payments made. petty cash book contains a summary of all petty cash disbursements, its total and the balance.
The petty cash book which is prepared in columnnor form is called anylatical petty cash book