Patent ID: 7801779

Claim:
A method of correcting a computerized ledger of a business for deposit discrepancies that comprise cash shortages or cash overages, comprising: displaying a transaction screen display associated with a current deposit transaction for the business; automatically receiving, at the computerized ledger, data representing an amount of receipts recorded at one or more cash registers at the business, since a time of entry of a most recent transaction deposit report and associated with the current deposit transaction and displaying the amount of receipts on the transaction screen display; receiving, from a user data representing an amount of adjustment between the amount of receipts recorded at the one or more cash registers and an amount to be deposited at a bank for the business as the cash overages or cash shortages; wherein the user enters the amount of adjustment using a point-of-sale terminal keypad as a user interface selection device in a retail computing environment at the business; and storing the amount of receipts adjusted by the amount of adjustment in an accounting department computing environment that is remote from the retail computing environment; storing the data representing the amount of receipts and the data representing an amount deposited in the computerized ledger; and providing a real time current transaction report output from the computerized ledger that represents the amount of receipts adjusted by the amount of cash adjustment; wherein the amount of receipts for the one or more cash registers in the current cash transaction report output is automatically obtained from a computer system in the business and is not alterable by the user making the current deposit transaction.