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Bank statement check

  • 27-07-2011 7:25am
    #1
    Keano!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭


    When you're asked to bring in a bank statement so the company can go through the admin stuff of setting up your pay-way etc and confirm everything is in place....

    ...do they need to see what payments you've made? Ie. Could I cut out the payments/withdrawals so they can't see them?


    And there's nothing sinister about what I've got. It's just I like my own business to be kept private and wouldn't really appreciate initial strangers viewing my account details.


    Ta


Comments

  • #2
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    They don't need to see a bank statement, an account number and sort code is all they need.


  • #3
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    If they're insisting on a bank statement (not sure why as the sort code and a/c number are plenty) - photocopy your statement with another sheet obscuring the financial info so that only your address and account details show up on the copy - at work we get bank statements from customers for the same reason and that's what we do with them.


  • #4
    Keano!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Keano!


    I was told a bank statement.

    So you're saying I could just go in with two numbers and they'd be fine with it? Seems a little dodgy.


  • #5
    helen1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭helen1


    They are probably asking for bank statements to make sure that your account number/sort code are correct. It has happened to me before that someone will give me hand written bank details and its near impossible to make out the numbers due to the hand writing.
    Just give them a photocopy of the top of the statement with account info.


  • #6
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    No reason whatsoever for them to see your finacial details other than account number and sort code.


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  • #7
    jos22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭jos22


    any place i ever worked just asked for account no and sort code.


  • #8
    omen80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭omen80


    Just be glad that you have a job!


  • #9
    Cill Dara Abu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    omen80 wrote: »
    Just be glad that you have a job!
    GTFO!


  • #10
    tenchi-fan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭tenchi-fan


    In Canada your entire account number is printed on the cheque, and when you're setting up a DD or direct credit many companies ask for a voided check.. I forget if it's the same in Ireland?

    Either way, a letter from your bank will probably suffice instead of a bank statement. If they insist on a bank statement, simply cut around the part of the page with the transactions :/

    What's the big deal, seriously!


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