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Teller Ops Unit 2
Term | Definition |
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Balancing | To reconcile or equalize the sums of the debits and credits of an account |
Cash In | Cash received; credit items |
Cash Out | Cash distributed; debit items |
Cash Items | For balancing, includes checks debit tickets, coupons, and any other item that represents a part of a teller’s cash balance, other than U.S. currency and coins |
Credit | Cash received; to add a sum of money to an account; an entry that decreases assets or increases liabilities |
Debit | Entry that increases an asset account and decreases a liability or equity account; a charge to a customer’s account; a charge against a bank |
Negotiability instrument | Written promise to pay (such as a check, promissory note, draft, or bill of exchange) that is payable to order or to bearer and transferred by endorsement delivery or by delivery alone |
Overage | Amount by which cash or its equivalent exceeds the figure it was intended to equal |
Posted Errors | Errors in the actual crediting or debiting of an account |
Proof | The procedure for testing the accuracy of a previous operation, such as relisting the checks and adding their amounts to determine the accuracy of the total shown on a deposit slip |
Shortage | Amount by which cash or its equivalent is less than the figure it was intended to equal |
Slide Errors | Accounting miscalculations caused by moving the decimal point of number to the left or right of its correct position |
Transpositions | Errors that occur when two digits that are either individual or part of larger sequence of numbers are reversed (transposed) when posting a transaction the error is evenly divisible by 9 |