Finance: cash book, cheques, and clearing

Cash and cheques are where ledger theory meets the day. Money can leave the building before the bank agrees it left. This release puts the cash book, cheque register, and clearing flows inside Finance so operators can see what is in the drawer, what is still floating, and what has finally settled.

Cash book

Treat each drawer as a living account for the day. You open the period, record receipts and payments against the running balance, and close with a number you can defend — not a number you reconstruct from receipts at month-end.

• Open a drawer, set the day, and post receipts and payments against the running balance.
• See opening and closing balances for the period without exporting to a spreadsheet.
• Cancel mistaken entries with a clear audit trail instead of silent overwrites.
• Keep cash handling next to the rest of Finance so the same people who post journals can also close the drawer.

Cheque register

A cheque is a promise with a delay. The party may settle commercially now; the bank moves later. The register keeps both truths on screen.

• Record cheques you wrote or received, with party and amount context.
• Watch uncleared outgoing and incoming totals in one place.
• Present, clear, bounce, or stop a cheque when the status changes.
• Keep the cheque story attached to the same commercial document it belongs to.

Clearing and payments

Clearing documents sit alongside payments so on-account allocations and bank matches live in the same module. When money settles in stages — advance, part-payment, final clear — Finance can represent that path without inventing a side process.

• Use clearing documents when settlement is not a single bank hit.
• Allocate payments on-account and finish the match when the bank confirms.
• Keep AP/AR clerks in one surface instead of bouncing between bank and ledger tools.