While most independent retailers prefer to pay for merchandise and services by check or credit card, sometimes paying by cash is necessary.

Use the Retail Store Petty Cash Form to manage and account for your cash payments.

Managing your petty cash is fairly straightforward.

• Do not take petty cash out of the till. Instead, keep a separate fund specifically for petty cash payments.
  
  
• Seed it with an amount that will meet your store's needs, such as $400 or $500. Everytime you pull money out of the petty cash fund, place a petty cash form for that amount in the fund.
  
  
• Once you have the receipt or invoice for your cash payment from the supplier or service provider, it should be stapled to the petty cash form and placed back into the petty cash fund along with any change.
  
  
• Remaining money in the petty cash fund plus petty cash receipts should always equal the starting amount of the petty cash fund. If does not, then someone is either being careless or skimming may be occurring.

The Retail Store Petty Cash Form is available in the Microsoft Word (doc) file format. You must have Microsoft Word installed on your computer to use this form.

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