Question

Interest amounting to $4 was credited to your account by the bank in September. The bank's service charge for the month was $5. In addition to your bank statement, you received a letter from your parents informing you that they had made a $2,400 electronic funds transfer directly into your account on October 2. After reading your parents' letter, you looked in your checkbook and discovered its balance was $601. Adding your parents' deposit brought that total to $3,001. Prepare a bank reconciliation to determine your correct checking account balance.

Answer 1

Bank Reconciliation Statement as at October 2:

Balance as per checkbook $601

Add: Electronic transfer $2,400

Interest $4

Less: Bank charge ($5)

Balance as per bank statement $3,000

Step-by-step explanation:

A bank reconciliation statement is a statement prepared periodically to reconcile the balance in the cash book with the balance shown on a bank statement.

The process starts with identifying transactions that do not (do) appear in the cash book and those that do not (do) appear in the bank statement, which did not appear in the other. Errors are also identified and corrected during the process. After this, the reconciliation statement is prepared to agree the two sources of balances.