I am having trouble figuring out what to do when a chec is drawn by a depositor in payment of a voucher for $725 was recorded as $257, what the depositor should debit. I think it is in the same manner as accounts payable but need help.

First, whenever correcting errors involving the cash account, think of the affect on the cash account first. If it adds to cash, then you have to debit cash. If it deducts from cash, then you have to credit cash. The other side of the entry then simply has to balance.

Assuming you're doing a bank reconciliation, you can do all the add's together and all the deduct's together. i.e. the total of the add's would be a debit to cash and then everything else is credits. The total of the deduct's would be a credit to cash and then everything else is debits.

As for the error... check errors can be a little weird and you have to kind of go against your instincts. It would appear that you need to add order to get the 257 up to the 725. However, it was a check and a negative number. Checks subtract. You should have subtracted 725 and you only subtracted 257. So you need to subtract more. A subtraction from cash is what, debit or credit? Since the check was originally written as a voucher payment, the other account would have been accounts payable, so the correction has to also be accounts payable.

Thank You morgaine300!!