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Balancing your checkbook is important to ensure the account balance in your records is the same as the balance shown by your bank. The concept of balancing your checkbook might be a foreign one in ...

Many people have trouble keeping their checkbooks balanced. Now that debit cards have made it easy to have money electronically transferred out of your bank account without even having to write a ...

Once again, you people have come through for me. I can always count on you for interesting feedback, though some of you are a bit odd. And, it turns out, some of you are unapologetically unbalanced. A ...

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I’m spring cleaning my office and desk when I come across my mother’s checkbook in one of my drawers. Mom’s been gone over a decade. The account is long closed and I’m in purging mode, so I ...

Question: My husband just bounced a check for the first time and I want it to be the last time! Can you please explain the concept of a bank reconciliation so I can make sure it never happens again?

In an age where cell phones can measure your heart rate, GPS can sort out the worst traffic jams and computers can predict your next words, the art of checkbook balancing has fallen unfashionably out ...

Q: Last month. I bounced two checks and I am mortified. I do not know how to reconcile my check register to the bank statement. I cannot afford to hire a bookkeeper. Can you please explain how I go ...

Many people have trouble keeping their checkbooks balanced. Now that debit cards have made it easy to have money electronically transferred out of your bank account without even having to write a ...