The Preparation of a Bank Reconciliation Is an Important Cash

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Essay

The preparation of a bank reconciliation is an important cash control procedure. If a company deposits cash receipts daily and makes all cash disbursements by check explain why the cash balance per books might not agree with the cash balance shown on the bank statement. Identify specific examples that may cause differences between the cash balance per books and the cash balance per bank.

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Definitions:

Observational Learning

A form of social learning where behaviors are learned by watching and imitating the actions of others.

Conditioned Taste-Aversion

Learning to avoid a food or drink because it has been associated with an illness or negative experience, even after only one exposure.

Stimulus Substitution

A theory in classical conditioning suggesting that the conditioned stimulus acts as a substitute for the unconditioned stimulus, eliciting the same response.

Classical Conditioning

An educational mechanism where the consistent pairing of two stimuli occurs; the response which initially is drawn by the second stimulus, in time, is drawn by the first stimulus alone.