Finance Question..second opinion would be really helpful!

Question

Gabrielle always made the night deposit of cash for her business, a local restaurant. One evening, Gabrielle was getting out of the car and was robbed. The robbers stole the bank deposit book, the cash and cash receipt book, leaving only the cheques received. How could the company accountant determine the amount of cash that was stolen?

Answer 1

The restaraunt would have record of how much they made that day, be it through a computer order entry system or register sales tape, whatever. So take the Total Sales - Checks and you have your cash.

(If there are credit card sales, subtract those out of the total too.)

Answer 2

The other posters are correct, but what I'm wondering is: Is Gabrielle ok? Did they catch the robbers?

Answer 3

Add the total receipts for the night, subtract the checks and you should have the cash.