How to write a Cheque / Check.

Cheques are used much less today than they were several years ago. However, they are still a part of the "money" system used in North America.

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Some places where you may see cheques being used include; paying your rent for your apartment (where you may use a "post-dated cheque."

Post dated cheques are cheques you give someone today, in "consideration" for an exchange which will be taking place such as the rent you have to pay for your apartment. The idea about post dated cheques is that the date on the cheque is a future date. For example; I will give my landlord (person who I have to pay rent to) a cheque for next month, the month after that and the month after that as well all with future dates on them.

Other uses for cheques include giving someone a VOIDED cheque. A voided cheque has the words VOID written on it in large letters and is NOT signed by you. The reason you will give someone a void cheque si so that they can use the bank info to automatically debit your bank account for a bill you will pay each month, like your telephone bill. This way, the telephone company will automatically withdraw the money from your bank account each month.

Usually in Canada we spell it; cheque, but we also use check sometimes. The usual way to spell it in the USA is check.

Although writing checks seems to be done a lot in North America, cheques aren't used much in Asia. There are checks in Asia, but of a different kind. Usually the checks you have there are cashiers checks and not personal checks.

In the U.S., the spellling is "check(s)" in Canada we usually use the spelling, "cheque(s)".

A personal check is form of currency or money, that you use to buy something. We say “write” a check because that is exactly what we do, write a check. Your bank will give you some checks for your account, that means that they will have your name, address and bank account information, something like this below.

In Canada when you open a bank account, the bank will usually ask you if you want a chequing account or a savings account. The chequing account is usually the more common, or the first account you will open, as it is the account you use for your daily spending, and cash flow (paying bills, withdraw money, make deposits for your paycheck, etc).