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Preparing Journal Entries From A Bank Reconciliation Form?

By Money F Posted in: Cash

I have just prepared one of my first bank reconciliation forms. I did balance the bank and the book balances so I believe I have done this right. I am going to trust my answers on the Bank Reconciliation form. The issue I am having trouble with is preparing journal entries. I will tell you what I have done so far and the problem I am at now to see if I’m on the right page…I only created a journal entry for each of the changes to the balance per books. My book has an awesome example of the everything that I ave used as a guide but their does not seem to be a journal entry for errors in recording checks received by customers. The checks were either not recorded or overstated. Should I credit accounts receivable and debit cash for the check recording errors? Or should I leave the check recording errors as not part of the journal entries even though they did change the balance of the books?

  1. JKRB Says

    If the checks were not recorded at all, the journal entry would just be the amount of the check:
    Dr Cash
    Cr Accounts Receivable
    If the checks were overstated, you would have to decrease the cash account while increasing accounts receivable by the amount of the overstatement.
    Dr Accounts Receivable
    Cr Cash

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