A cheque, or simply check, is a document that orders a bank to pay a specific amount of money from a person's/entity account to the person/entity in whose name the cheque has been issued.
The person writing the cheque, known as the
drawer, has a transaction banking account (often called a current, cheque, chequing or checking account) where their money is held. The drawer writes the various details including the monetary amount, date, and a payee on the cheque, and signs it, ordering their bank, known as the
drawee, to pay that person or company the amount of money stated.
- The Cheque can used to execute the business and can be described as a record to move cash in physical shape.
- The drawer writes the various details including the monetary amount, date, and a payee on the cheque, and signs it, ordering their bank, known as the drawee, to pay that person or company the amount of money stated.
- Payee is the person to whom the amount stated in the cheque is payable.
- A cheque is a negotiable instrument instructing a financial institution to pay a specific amount of a specific currency from a specified transactional account held in the drawer's name with that institution.
Types of Cheques
- Order Cheque a payable to particular person or his order is called an order cheque.
- Blank Cheque is a cheque on which the drawer puts his signature and leaves all other columns blank.
- Bearer cheque is a cheque which is payble to bears.
- Multilated Cheque is used to torn into two or more than pieces.
- Post dated Cheque is defines as the cheque bears a date later than the date of issue.
- Open Cheque is a cheque which has not been crossed is called an open cheque.The drawe has cancellled the crossing at the request of the payee and affixs his full signature with the words crossing cancelled pay cash.
- Crossed Cheque which carries too parallel transverse lines across the face of the cheque with or without the words and co is said to be crossed.