What Is a Petty Cash Fund? Petty cash is a small amount of cash-on-hand necessary for your departmental operations. Before a petty cash fund may be established, both the Departmental Cash Handling ...
Petty cash funds must be used only to purchase incidental items of a nominal amount for which other established university procurement methods are not feasible. Nominal generally means $60 for study ...
Petty cash is generally requested and used for two purposes: small purchases of approved miscellaneous expenditures and/or ‘cash drawer change’ fund activity. A separate Petty Cash Request Change form ...