Checking Accounts
Reconciling Bank Statements
Banking Vocabulary
Simple Interest
Compounding Interest
100

A written order used to tell a bank to pay money (transfer funds) from an account to the payee.

What is a check?

100

This is either a handwritten or electronic record that tracks all transactions in your checking account.

What is a check register?

100

A percentage of the money that is in an account paid to the account holder by the bank.

What is interest?

100

Gary deposits $3,700 in an account that pays 2.15% simple interest He keeps the money in the account for three years without making any other deposits or withdrawals. 

This is the amount of interest Gary will earn.

What is $238.65?

100

This is the ending balance of an account into which $6,000 is deposited that pays 3.2% interest compounded annually for one year.

What is $6,192?

200

Mason has g dollars in his checking account. On October 3rd, he deposited m, n, and p dollars, then cashed a check he'd written to himself for k dollars. 

This is the algebraic expression that represents the amount of money in his account after the transactions.

What is g + m + + p - k?

200

This words describes checks that have been written and that do not appear on a bank statement.

What is outstanding?

200

This kind of compounding compounds interest twice per year.

What is semiannual compounding?

200

This is the ending balance of an account that has $6,000 deposited at a simple interest rate of 4.25% after 4.5 years.

What is $7,147.50?

200

This is the ending balance of an account into which $16,000 is deposited with a rate of 4.8% compounded daily for one year.

What is $16,786.68?

300

Neka cashed a check for $245. The teller gave him 2 fifty-dollar bills, 6 twenty-dollar bills, and x five-dollar bills. This is the number five-dollar bills Neka received.

What is 5?

300

This word describes a check that has been processed by the bank and appears on a bank statement.

What is cleared?

300

This kind of interest adds the same amount of money each year to a savings account.

What is simple interest?

300

This is the amount of principal you would have to deposit to earn $700 simple interest in 1.5 years at a rate of 4%.

What is $11,666.67?

300

Clarice has $4,111 in an account that pays 3.07% interest, compounded monthly. This is how much interest Clarice will earn after two years.

What is $259.98?

400

Sarah deposited a $900 paycheck, a $300 stock dividend check, a $50 rebate check, and $200 cash into her checking account. Her original account balance was $555. This describes the amount in her account after the transactions.

What is $2,005?

400

If one is able to successfully reconcile a bank statement and a check register, the register's ending balance should match this.

What is a revised statement balance?

400

This kind of interest is money earned on the money deposited plus previous interest.

What is compound interest?

400

This is the amount of simple interest earned after 4 months when $7,000 is deposited at a rate of 1.5%.

What is $35?

400

Uriel deposited $10,000 at 3.85% interest, compounded continuously. This is his ending balance after 3 years.

What is $11,224.35?

500

Jack and Diane have a joint checking account. Their balance at the beginning of October was $8,456.12. During the month they made deposits totaling $3,446.12, wrote checks totaling $5,321.08, paid a maintenance fee of $10, and earned $5.17 in interest on the account.

This is the balance at the end of the month.

What is $6,576.33?

500

Tasha filled out the following information on the back of her bank statement:

Statement Ending Balance: $764.22

Outstanding Deposits: $387.11

Outstanding Withdrawals: $455.32


Using Tasha's information, this is the revised statement balance.

What is $696.01?

500

In the compounding continuously formula, the letter is named for this mathematician.

Who is Leonhard Euler?

500

This is how long it would take $5,000 to double in an account that pays 5.6% simple interest, to the nearest year.

What is 18 years?

500

Ms. Sanchez is opening a one-year CD for $20,000. The interest is compounded daily. The annual percentage rate (APR) is 4.8%. This is the APY for this account, rounded to the nearest hundredth.

What is 4.92%?