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For example, imagine that Sally's Soaps writes a check for $3,000 and gives it to an essential oil supplier on Monday. The money won't leave Sally's checking account until Thursday. This means that between Monday and Thursday, the $3,000 is in float, a sort of limbo between both accounts.

A cash float is generally understood as a base cash amount that users exchange during the shift. Cash floats are typically filled with smaller denomination amounts at the start of a shift so that users can provide change to customers during cash transactions.

For example, imagine that Sally's Soaps writes a check for $3,000 and gives it to an essential oil supplier on Monday. The money won't leave Sally's checking account until Thursday. This means that between Monday and Thursday, the $3,000 is in float, a sort of limbo between both accounts.

To set up a petty cash float, you simply need to withdraw money out of your bank account to keep on hand at the office. Keeping smaller denominations of cash makes the petty cash float easier to use and manage.

In financial terms, the float is money within the banking system that is briefly counted twice due to time gaps in registering a deposit or withdrawal. These time gaps are usually due to the delay in processing paper checks.

In retail businesses and restaurant settings, however, cash float can also refer to the amount of cash put in the register at the start of the day or an individual employee's shift. This is usually a relatively small amount of cash, broken up into different bills and change so that customers can receive change.

Our business has a number cash floats (current assets) which are showing up on the Cash Summary report as Operating Expenses.

Though the exact amount might vary from business to business, make sure to have cash, sometimes referred to as petty cash, on-hand in the morning. For a small business, $100 to $150 should be more than enough. A good rule of thumb is to keep at least $20 in five-dollar bills and $20 in one-dollar bills.