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TUTORIAL - Cheque Written
(for the current Year and not against Invoice)


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Posting
> Cheque or Cash Received
>> Against Invoice
> Cheque Written
>> Against Invoice
> Cash Paid
> Cash from Cash Account to Bank
> Cash from Bank to Cash Account
> Cash Banked
> Bank Transfer In
>> Against Invoice
> Bank Transfer Out
>> Against Invoice
> Account Transfer
> Bank Interest Received

> Opening Balances
> Opening Income & Expenditure

> Invoice Sent
> Invoice Received

The Bank Reconciliation

Transaction Enquiry
Balance Enquiry

The Year End

Reporting

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The very first cheque (check for some people) we have written!

You have opened a bank account and the bank have given you a cheque book and a paying in book. You have bought a cash tin and a duplicate receipt book.

You have circulated all your friends and four of them have turned up to a meeting and paid 25.00 pounds annual subscription!  You now have to write a cheque for the hire of the hall.

You may have received an Invoice. For the moment we are not concerned with entering Invoices onto the system because we don't necessarily have to track how much we owe at any one time because most of the expenses will be paid as they occur anyway. (If you want to look at entering Invoices, look here.) We are just concerned with paying it.

OK, write the cheque out to Local Council for 15.00 pounds. Fire up hontreasurer.com and choose Transactions/Expenditure & Payments/Post Cheque Written. (This is so similar to Cheque Received that I have not repeated all the detail. If you want to review it, click here.) Put the date on the cheque in and choose, or add, Local Council. If it's a Company or Authority, use the Surname field - you can put the person responsible in the Firstname field if you want. Now comes a tricky choice about Activity. Here's my suggestion: if it's for a specific event, select the Activity for the event, or create an activity Event - Hall Hire for that event specifically. If it's just general, create an activity Hall Hire for the year. Assign it to Accounting Category Expenditure. See here for a discussion of different ways of setting up Activities - it's quite an art. It's not hontreasurer.com's fault - it's just that there are a bewildering number of ways of looking at accounts!

Enter the amount and put the cheque number in the Cheque Number field. That's it. To look at the result, see here.

The next step is to pay cash expenses to a seminar lecturer.........
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