Monthly Average Balance (MAB) confuses many account holders and they wrongly take it as maintenance of a specified amount in their Savings Bank Account all the time.
However, MAB is actually calculated by adding up all end of day balances in an account in a month, and then dividing it by the number of days in that particular month. While calculating MAB, all bank holidays and working days are included too.
Suppose the “Monthly Average Balance” requirement of your bank is ₹ 10,000. It implies that the bank wants the average in your account to be ₹ 10,000. It does not means that you should have ₹ 10,000 balance at the end of every day. It’s your discretion as to how to go about it. You can maintain a balance of ₹ 10,000 every day or ₹ 3,00,000 (₹ 10,000*30) on any one day of the month which have 30 days in it or ₹ 3,10,000 (₹ 10,000*31) on any one day of the month which have 31 days in the month. Ultimately the average needs to come around ₹ 10,000.
So let's calculate it.
First of all we need bank statement as in picture below.
- On April 1, the balance in the account is ₹ 35,000.
- On April 8, withdrawal of ₹ 20,000 takes place. EOD balance is ₹ 15,000.
- On April 16, deposit of ₹ 12,000 & withdraw of ₹ 10,000 takes place. EOD balance is ₹ 17,000.
- On April 22, withdraw of ₹ 15,000 takes place. EOD balance is ₹ 2,000.
- On April 27, deposit of ₹ 1,000 takes place. EOD balance is ₹ 3,000.
Summing up the EOD balances as shown in Picture above:
- From April 1 to April 7 (7 Days), sum of EOD balance will be ₹ (35,000*7) = ₹ 245,000.
- From April 8 to April 15 (8 Days), sum of EOD balances will be ₹ (15,000*8) = ₹ 120,000
- From April 16 to April 21 (6 Days), sum of EOD balances will be ₹ (17,000*6) = ₹ 102,000
- From April 22 to April 26 (5 Days), sum of EOD balances will be ₹ (2,000*5) = ₹ 10,000
- From April 27 to April 30 (4 Days), sum of EOD balances will be ₹ (3,000*4) = ₹ 12,000