<P> On a deposit slip, "cash received" means that part of the amount on a cheque that is to be withdrawn as cash . The remainder is deposited into the person's account . </P> <P> The description column on deposit slips has been used for over 100 years in the U.S. to notate where the bank should send the check to reclaim the money; this was done at first by notating in words the name of bank or its location . The bank's transit number, also called bank number, began to be used instead of words . The bank number was written as the upper line of a fraction, with the bottom number referring to the central bank branch . Some people wrote just the top of the fraction, others tried writing the entire fraction . After the introduction of automated sorting of checks, many people wrote nothing at all in the deposit slip's description column . Some people put the check writers' names in the description column . There was a tendency in the early teens of the 21st century to write in the number of the check being deposited without mentioning who the check was from . </P>

Who is the drawer on a cheque deposit slip