Cash book entries. Image credit mexperience.com

Cash book entries. Image credit mexperience.com

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: The Cash Book:Entries into the Cash Book

  • We will now look at the following example:

Write up a two-column cash book for a S Munodei’s Furniture Shop from the following details, and
balance it off as at the end of the month:

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July 1 Started in business with capital in cash $1,000.
2 Paid rent by cash $230.
3 G Banda lent us $2,000, paid by cheque.
4 We paid J Dengu by cheque $860.
5 Cash sales $190.
7 F Rize paid us by cheque $34.
9 We paid A Muromo in cash $92.
11 Cash sales paid direct into the bank $151.
15 P Hove paid us in cash $96.
16 We took $100 out of the cash till and paid it into the bank account.
19 We repaid R Roro $500 by cheque.
22 Cash sales paid direct into the bank $122.
26 Paid motor expenses by cheque $75.
30 Withdrew $200 cash from the bank for business use.
31 Paid wages in cash $320.

Solution

Cash Book
DateDetailsCashBankDateDetailsCashBank
July 1Capital1000July 2Rent230
3G Banda: Loan20004J Dengu860
5Sales1909A Muromo92
7F Rize3416Bank100
11Sales15119R Roro: Loan500
15P Hove9626Motor Expenses75
16Cash10030Cash200
22Sales12231Wages320
30Bank20031Balance c/d744722

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NB You are not being asked to draw up the other corresponding accounts so do not waste your time doing so.

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