# Cashiers openly shorting their register (attention accounting types)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 23, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-openly-shorting-their-register-attention-accounting-types/812953 "2018-04-23T08:57:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-openly-shorting-their-register-attention-accounting-types/812953/61 "2018-04-28T22:57:15Z")

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> [@pkbites](#):
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> I never said they were “white bread” places.
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> and he didn’t say all of them were like this, just some. The ones I’ve seen must be, though.

Yes, I would not be surprised if some places are like this, and you may be seeing this. But what I’m saying is that it’s not at all difficult to do the accounting. You have two numbers at the end of the night: the number from the register and the actual amount of cash you have. Both numbers are accounted for, and you have a cash short/over balance that you keep track of. Now, I did not run these places or do these taxes, but looking online, the gets reported in the taxes as “other income” or “other expense” line of the Schedule C. It just doesn’t seem like an accounting nightmare to me, as it was standard to record all these numbers when I worked the till at a couple of places, and it’s being reported above that this is not unusual.

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