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How do you treat voided checks on the bank reconciliation?

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Question added by Rehan Qureshi , Financial Consultant , Self Employeed
Date Posted: 2014/01/10
Rehan Qureshi
by Rehan Qureshi , Financial Consultant , Self Employeed

If a voided check was written in a previous month, remove the voided check from the list of outstanding checks and write a journal entry to debit Cash and credit the account(s) that was debited when the check was originally recorded. This entry restores the cash into the checking account and eliminates the debit entered at the time the check was recorded. If the check was written in the current month, you can simply write the journal entry I just described.Some software will allow a person to go into a previous period's activity (as well as the current period's activity) and remove the voided check or to change the amount to zero. This too will increase the cash balance and will remove the debit from the account originally debited when the check was recorded

Subhranshu Ganguly
by Subhranshu Ganguly , Quality Analyst. , WIPRO

It depends upon whether it is cheks issued or presented for payment. If check issued become void a fresh check of that amount has to be reissued as a creditor remains a creditor. But if a check presented for payment becomes void then it could be bad debt if the amount cannot be recovered.

If check presented for payment is void the amount should be deducted from the bank cash book to tally with the passbook. It is reverse for check issued and then voided.

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