When we think about personal finance, we often consider budgeting or investing, but we don’t necessarily think about balancing a checkbook. Perhaps that is because paper checks are less common than ...

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 ...

Shortly after our marriage, I committed a cardinal sin: I bounced a check. My bride was mortified, and rightly so, because she worked for a bank in those days, and she spent a fair amount of time ...

Every month, George Gross of Orlando studies his bank statement, searching for bank foul-ups and savoring the hunt for that entry that will reconcile the bank’s version of his finances with his own.

These days many of us write few, if any, checks. So, the term “balancing a checkbook” has taken on a new meaning. Simply put, balancing your checkbook involves making sure your records for your ...

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 ...

I grew up watching my mother balance her checkbook regularly. Fascinated by the orderly columns of numbers I was excited when I got my first job and my first checking account. Frustration soon set in ...

Balancing a business checkbook is easy to do in a very simple business. But various factors may change that. An early stage business checkbook balance may require a quick mental adjustment to realize ...

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 ...

When we think about personal finance, we often consider budgeting or investing, but we don’t necessarily think about balancing a checkbook. Perhaps that is because paper checks are less common than ...

In the age of smartphones, balancing a checkbook can sound like an archaic activity — something people did back in the old days of landlines and video rentals. But despite popular belief, keeping a ...