Test: Bank Reconciliation Statement - 3 - Commerce MCQ

Sometimes the difference between the two balances may be accounted for by an error of the bank or an error in the cash book of the business. This cause difference between the bank balance shown by the cash book and the balance shown by the bank statement. Omission or wrong recording of transactions relating to cheques issued, cheques deposited and wrong totaling, etc. committed by the firm while recording entries in the cash book cause difference between cash book and passbook balance. Cash deposited but not credited by the bank, casting mistakes in bank column of cash book and interest or commission charged by the bank but not accounted for in cash book are the types of errors which are detected, whereas cash embezzlement by the cashier is not detected during bank reconciliation.

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The correct option is B.

Since the starting point is balance as per cash book, we are making changes in cash book. Since the cheques are not collected they are not included in pass book but are added in cash book. As a result balance of cash book is more than pass book by that amount. So it should be subtracted to match the pass book.