Cash accounting system

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention has, accordingly, for its essential object to provide an improved cash accounting system substantially free from the above discussed disadvantages and inconveniences inherent in the prior art cash register.
In order to accomplish this and other objects of the present invention, a cash accounting system of a type wherein a cash register for registering information concerning transaction of money is electrically connected with a cash counting machine for counting the amount of money including papers (bills) and coins used during the transaction is provided with a count write-in means for writing count information from the counting machine into a central processing unit of the cash register so that the count information can be transferred to the central processing unit at any desired time.
For the same purpose, the system of the type referred to above is provided with a money data memory unit so incorporated in the cash register that, in response to completion of the counting operation performed by the counting machine, the count information indicative of the amount deposited can be transferred to the money data memory unit.
Moreover, for the same purpose, the system of the type referred to above is provided with a means for handling the count information as an input indicative of information of different denominations, said handling means being incorporated in the cash register.
The cash register so constructed is also provided with a means for detecting the presence or absence of the count information from the counting machine such that, in the case of the absence of the count information so detected by said detecting means, the entry of the information of different denominations is effected by means of an input means incorporated in the cash register.
In addition, the memory unit used in the cash register for storing the count information fed from the counting machine is so designed that, in response to an instruction indicative of the completion of the recording of the money transaction, the contents stored in such memory unit can be erased