For the purpose of bank reconciliation statement, only the bank column of the cash book is to be considered by the _________.

Cash

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Cash and Bank

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The correct option is B Bank
Bank Reconciliation Statement is prepared to match balances of bank column of cash book and pass book. when payment received or paid by bank, it is recorded in bank column of cash book. Same transactions are recorded by bank in pass book. When reconciliation is done, bank balance shown by cash book and pass book is tallied. So, it is clear that only the bank column of cash book is considered.

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The following are the Cash Book and Pass Book extracts of Mr. Anil for the month of May 2011. From this information you are required to prepare a Bank Reconciliation Statement as on 31^st May 2011.

Cash Book (Bank Column Only)
Dr.			Cr.
Date	Particulars	Rs	Date	Particulars	Rs
2011 May 4	Ankita’s A/c	2,300	2011 May 1	By Balance b/d	7,500
11	To Kavita;s A/c	3,700	4	By Roky’s A/c	2,000
14	To Sales A/c	14,500	6	By Mamata’s A/c	2,500
15	To Furniture A/c	2,000	9	By Sonali’s A/c	4,000
22	To Anita’s A/c	1,500	15	By Manjiri’s A/c	1,500
26	To Ganesh’s A/c	4,000	17	By Purchases A/c	7,000
28	To Kamal’s A/c	3,000	20	By Drawings A/c	2,400
30	To Prakash’s A/c	1,000	24	By Machinery A/c	10,000
30	Too Balance’s c/d	8,500	27	By Archan’s A/c	3,600
		40,500			40,500

Pass Book
Dr.			Cr.
Date	Particulars	Rs	Date	Particulars	Rs
2011 May 1	To Sonali’s A/c	4,000	2011 May 1	By Balance b/d	13,400
2	To Manjiri’s A/c	1,500	4	By Anita’s A/c	1,500
14	To Cash A/c	10,000	6	By Ganesh’s A/c	4,000
17	To Archana’s A/c	3,600	17	By Cash A/c	14,500
			18	By Kamal’s	3,000
			19	By Prakash’s A/c	1,000

Q. The purpose of preparing a bank reconciliation statement is to ____________.

From the following entries in the Bank column of the cash Book of Mr. Kunal and the corresponding Bank Statement, prepare Bank Reconciliation Statement as on 30^th April 2011.

Cash Book (Bank Column)
Dr. Cr.
Date	Receipts	Rs	Date	Payments	Rs
2011 April 1	To Balance b/d	12,500	2011 Apr. 1	By Salaries A/c	4,000
4	To Sales A/c	8,000	7	By Purchases A/c	3,200
8	To Paritosh A/c	1,500	9	By Machinery A/c	6,000
13	To Mahima’s A/c	3,400	11	By Omkar’s A/c	1,000
18	To Karina’s A/c	4,600	15	By Drawings A/c	800
21	To Furniture A/c	1,200	18	By Vijay’s A/c	2,000
25	To Sales A/c	3,800	20	By Shobha’s A/c	1,000
30	Too Firoz’s A/c	3,000	28	By Printing A/c	500
			30	By Balance c/d	19,500
		38,000			38,000

Bank Statement
Date	Particulars	Deposits Rs	Withdrawals Rs	Balance Rs
2011 April 1	Balance			12,500
2	Cheque		4,000	8,500
6	Cash	8,000		16,500
6	Cheque		3,200	13,300
10	Paritosh	1,500		14,800
16	Mahima	3,400		18,200
17	Cheque		800	17,400
20	Karin	4,600		22,000
24	Cash	3,800		25,800
28	Cheque		6,000	19,800
28	Shobha		1,000	18,800
30	Interest	100		18,900
30	Firoz	3,000		21,900
30	Bank Charges		10	21,890

You are required to prepare Bank Reconciliation Statement as on 30th April 2011

The main purpose of preparing a bank reconciliation statement is?

Q. The main purpose of preparing a bank reconciliation statement is ___________.

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