FBCJ For Bank Account???

Question

I'm trying to set up the Cash Book for a new business unit (FBCJ).  My initial assumption with this was its 1 transaction for both Cash & Bank account cash books, with each being on its own page per currency/account.
I've now found an official SAP doc on best practice use of the cash book, and it says its for CASH only...and indeed, I get get it to go negative for an overdraft.
What are people using as the Cash Book for their bank account?  Can this only be done outside SAP and journelled into SAP?
I can't see an obvious equivalent for a bank account?
If this transaction is just for "Cash", why does it have a "Check" tab?
Any advice greatly appreciated?

Answer 1

I mean the Cash book for the Bank Account
When ever you make a posting, for example  a customer bacs receipt.  The double entry is CR the Cust a/c, Dr the Bank a/c Suspense Account.  This will come from the std sap transaction for whatever you doing.
Currently, we then record this offline as a bank posting and do a summary journal at the end of the month.  For the above example, we would Cr the suspense a/c, and Dr the appropriate Bank account.
For a none subledger posting, such as a dividend, we would simply record this in the s/sheet, and CR the bank a/c, DR the dividend GL at the month end.
My assumption was that there was an equivalent of FBCJ for each bank account, where you enter each payment or receipt (equiv of our excel s/sheet).  If you enter a receipt, its cofigured to go the appropriate GLs or subledger accounts, and tracks on a daily basis you Bank balance
In other words, exactly the same as the "Cash Journal FBCJ", but can potentially go negative if you go overdrawn.  You would have a seperate page per bank account e.g. sterling bank account, Euro bank account etc.
I want to know if there is an equivalent to that, and if not, how they post amounts going in and out of the bank account?