At the Bank
On the Check
Does it Register
Checking Potpourri
100
A financial institution that receives deposits and maintains financial accounts for customers
What is a bank or credit union?
100
A place for the account holder to sign his or her name on a check.
What is the signature line?
100
The place where all transactions for a checking account are recorded.
What is the check register?
100
The place on a check where the amount is written in words
What is the amount line?
200
Money that is put into a checking or savings account.
What is a deposit?
200
The space where the check amount is written in number format.
What is the amount box?
200
This is an amount that is added to the account balance.
What is a deposit?
200
This is a summary of the check, often remaining in the check book when the check is torn out.
What is a (check) stub?
300
Writing one of these takes money from an account.
What is a check?
300
The person or business the check is written to
What is the payee?
300
This is subtracted from the account balance.
What is the check (amount)?
300
Declare a check invalid, making it unable to be cashed
What is void?
400
When you deposit money, the bank records it as a ________ to your account.
What is a credit?
400
It is the first set of numbers printed at the bottom left corner of the check, identifying the bank.
What is the routing number?
400
This is the amount in the account after the last transaction.
What is the balance forward?
400
Signing your name to the back of a check that is payable to you.
What is endorse?
500
When you write a check, the transaction is recorded as a ________ to your account.
What is a debit?
500
It is the second set of numbers printed at the bottom left of the check and is assigned to the customer.
What is the account number?
500
True or False.  It is perfectly fine to write checks all month, then record them all at the end.
False
500
A plastic card that allows you to spend money from your account without writing a check.
What is a debit card?
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