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Practical skills, such as knowing how to balance a checkbook, are not emphasized in the school room, yet by the absence of such knowledge, kids are falling into poor credit scores and a whole bunch of hassles as a result. Such a simple exercise can wreak havoc with both kids and adults who never learned how to balance a checkbook. Here’s the foolproof method on how to balance a checkbook and keep your finances straight.

We’ll start with a clean slate. You’ve opened a checking account with a $100 deposit. You write checks against that amount, make deposits, use the ATM to withdraw funds and also pay bills online with your checking account debit card. At the end of the month, you receive a bank statement. The amount differs from your calculations. Now what?

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