Sunday, February 2, 2014

Bookkeeping Entries of the Bank

‘The truth is very powerful and overcomes lies, if you know how to expose it.’

Bookkeeping entries have two columns of numbers, one on the left and one on the right.

These tell us what the bank owns and what money the bank owes to customers.

The left hand column is the asset column.

The asset column records what the bank owns.

Cash and promissory notes are assets and recorded in this left hand column.

How do you know if something is an asset?

It is easy to tell. If you can sell it, it is an asset.

Assets have value.

The right-hand column, generally speaking, is the liability and capital column.

The liability means you owe money to someone.

You cannot sell a liability.

You cannot sell someone what you owe them.

Some people call the left column a debit and the right column a credit.

Just remember that it is a way to determine how much the bank owes you.

The bank li-ability is merely a scorecard to record how much legal tender the bank owes each customer.

Think of the banks as one big bank working in cooperation, acting in unison.

The following examples will show you the bank's bookkeeping entries for deposits and the alleged loans:

Example #1: If you deposit $6,000 cash in the bank, these are the bank bookkeeping entries:

Cash $5,000 Debit (asset)

Demand Deposit Account (DDA) $5,000 Credit (liability)


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