Patent ID: 8627939

Claim:
A method of reconciling currency bills in a plurality of teller drawers, wherein a memory stores a plurality of teller drawer files, each teller drawer file being associated with a respective one of the plurality of teller drawers and including a teller drawer record for each currency bill expected to be in the respective teller drawer, the method comprising: operating a document processing device in an audit mode, wherein the document processing device performs the acts of: receiving a first plurality of audit-currency-bills in an input receptacle of the document processing device, the first plurality of audit-currency-bills including all of the currency bills that were in a first one of the plurality of teller drawers; transporting the first plurality of audit-currency-bills from the input receptacle past an image scanner; generating a first audit file, the first audit file including an audit record for each one of the first plurality of audit-currency-bills; receiving a second plurality of audit-currency-bills in the input receptacle of the document processing device, the second plurality of audit-currency-bills including all of the currency bills that were in a second one of the plurality of teller drawers; transporting the second plurality of audit-currency-bills from the input receptacle past the image scanner; generating a second audit file, the second audit file including an audit record for each one of the second plurality of audit-currency-bills; automatically determining if the first audit file matches a first one of the plurality of teller drawer files associated with the first one of the plurality of teller drawers; automatically determining if the second audit file matches a second one of the plurality of teller drawer files associated with the second one of the plurality of teller drawers; responsive to a determination that the first audit file does not match the first one of the plurality of teller drawer files associated with the first one of the plurality of teller drawers, automatically generating a first variance report; responsive to a determination that the second audit file does not match the second one of the plurality of teller drawer files associated with the second one of the plurality of teller drawers, automatically generating a second variance report; and automatically reconciling the plurality of teller drawers by comparing the first variance report with the second variance report.