Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting, The Financial Chapters (6th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134486840
Author: Tracie L. Miller-Nobles, Brenda L. Mattison, Ella Mae Matsumura
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 7, Problem 12RQ
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Petty cash fund: Petty cash fund is a fund established to pay insignificant amounts like postage, office supplies, and lunches. In day-to-day life, it becomes difficult to use checks for daily expenses. Therefore, companies maintain some minimum amount of funds in the hand for such daily expenses. These funds are called as petty cash funds. These funds are managed by custodian. This system is otherwise called as imprest system.
To identify: The use of petty cash account.
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Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting, The Financial Chapters (6th Edition)
Ch. 7 - Prob. 1QCCh. 7 - Prob. 2QCCh. 7 - Prob. 3QCCh. 7 - Prob. 4QCCh. 7 - Prob. 5QCCh. 7 - Prob. 6QCCh. 7 - Prob. 7QCCh. 7 - Prob. 9QCCh. 7 - Prob. 10QCCh. 7 - Prob. 11QC
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