Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Accountancy

Chapter

Recording of Transactions - II

Question:

Large organisations maintain a separate cash book to record transactions of small payments. These transactions are recorded in.................

Options:

Double column cash book

Single column cash book

Petty cash book

Special cash book

Correct Answer:

Petty cash book

Explanation:

The correct answer is option 3- Petty cash book.

In every organisation, a large number of small payments such as conveyance, cartage, postage, telegrams and other expenses (collectively recorded under miscellaneous expenses) are made. These are generally repetitive in nature. If all these payments are handled by the cashier and are recorded in the main cash book, the procedure is found to be very cumbersome. The cashier may be overburdened and the cash book may become very bulky. To avoid this, large organisations normally appoint one more cashier (petty cashier) and maintain a separate cash book to record these transactions. Such a cash book maintained by petty cashier is called petty cash book.