How to Use petty cash in a Sentence

petty cash

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  • The shoot takes about two hours, and then Richard changes into dry clothes and a warm jacket and gets his dollar from petty cash.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
  • None of these contracts can exactly be covered by the petty cash jar.
    — Alex Hickey, ajc, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The safe contained petty cash for the business and likely did not have more than $300 inside, according to the report.
    — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
  • Kilpatrick's staff has defended her handling of the petty cash fund.
    — M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2020
  • Duke freely takes money from his office's petty cash box and uses it at poker games and to buy fancy golf clubs.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Many businesses opt to use petty cash vouchers to keep track of their cash transactions.
    — Bassam Mustafa, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • Though Ripper’s budget was in the millions, the production office was oddly low on petty cash.
    — Wired, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Elon Musk making a play for Twitter out of his petty cash drawer is one more example of why the pooling of so much wealth in the hands of a few is a societal disease.
    — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Blakely testified that none of the inmates ever went without their money and that the fund was used as a petty cash account or for cashing checks.
    — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, 29 July 2021
  • The manager gave the suspect a metal box containing petty cash.
    — cleveland, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The charges revolved around the use of petty cash, which is a legal way to pay vendors but in this case allowed the state to argue that the director had misappropriated the funds.
    — Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The fine is mere petty cash as Facebook reportedly earned nearly $6 billion profit in the first quarter this year.
    — Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 11 July 2018
  • Sheene III said his father told him that the partners kept between three hundred thousand and four hundred thousand dollars of petty cash in the Brooklyn safe alone.
    — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Shortly after, on the morning of her 18th birthday, Maren awakens to find that Holland has left her to fend for herself, with only an 8-track audio tape and some petty cash to remember him by.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 23 Nov. 2022
  • However, both their salaries combined couldn’t fill Saban’s petty cash drawer.
    — Eric Scott, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The deep-pocket Cubs, whose revenue sources make the Brewers’ look like a petty cash drawer, began the season with a $172 million payroll, which has increased through second-half additions such as Jose Quintana.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The director told Thurman that, when a ward left the facility or died, the facility would issue a check to Fierle for any overpayments or petty cash the facility was holding for the wards to use.
    — Monivette Cordeiro, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The Financial Times reported on allegations that Sorrell had visited a prostitute, paid the bill in petty cash, and had mistreated his assistants and sacked his chauffeur after a 12-day shift.
    — Claire Atkinson, NBC News, 22 June 2018
  • The audit found vulnerabilities in the merit board’s technology and inadequacies in the handling of contracts, vouchers, time-keeping and even its petty cash fund.
    — Ray Long, chicagotribune.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The next step is first assistant accountant, who tracks and manages daily spending on such things as labor, petty cash and per diem expenses, while also dealing with vendor costs, such as for materials, locations and stages.
    — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • For instance, internal controls can restrict accountants from keeping petty cash in an office drawer, signing a bulk of unassigned checks or completing wire transfers on open IP addresses.
    — Lilit Davtyan, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The recommendations of the Global Pandemic Monitoring Board for the $8 billion dollars or so for the development of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics came through, but that’s the petty cash.
    — Jason Gale, Bloomberg.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Reconcile and turn in all petty cash, mileage forms or other outstanding reimbursable expenses paperwork.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Microsoft’s $1 billion investment into OpenAI is merely petty cash compared to what the high-profile artificial intelligence research group believes will be necessary to further the field.
    — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2019

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