Revised CATS Procedure Dec.20161

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia December 2016
The Customer Services Officer/Maker (at the coin-exchange window)
a) Balances the money and coins she/he received from the Senior Customer
Services Officer-cash, the money and the coin still in her or his hands
against ‘Till balance by denomination’ on the system; and
b) Submits to the Senior Customer Services Officer-cash the cash and the
coins still in her or his hands and make a ‘Till transfer’.
The Senior Customer Services Officer-cash
a) Accepts the cash from the Customer Service officer Maker at the table,
after checking against the system;
b) Receives cash from the Customer Services Officers/Makers against the
balance shown in the system;
c) Receives the total amount of cash from the Customer Services Officers by
authorizing the ‘Till transfer’ as acknowledgment of receipt of Cash.
d) Makes sure that the bricks contain 10 bundles of 100 Birr notes each and
that the packet bears the initials of the Counter and of the Verifier in the
cases of notes of Birr ten and above, and also count each FCY currency;
e) Balances the total cash (Both local and foreign currency) transaction
against the Customer Services Officers’ balance in the system;
f) Records the breakdown of all Customer Services Officers’ petty cash on a
register for the next day’s transfer;
g) Writes the balance of the daily debits and credits on the cash book;
h) Fills the amount of money withdrawn from the vault during the day and
the amount of money lodged to the vault on the cash book;
i) Balances the cash books of local and FCY against the Vault account
balance and signs on the space provided for that purpose;
j) Posts the cash lodged to the vault on the system under the file ’Till to
Vault transfer’; and
k) Transfers the cash lodgment to the vault, together with the petty-cash
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