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Reconciling bank accounts is a complex process. In Accounting CS, the Actions > Reconcile Bank Accounts screen and the Actions > Reconcile Impound Bank Accounts screen enable you to easily reconcile Accounting CS bank accounts. You can download transaction data from your financial institution and then match and clear those transactions against transactions entered in Accounting CS. Or you can manually clear transactions entered in Accounting CS using a printed or online bank statement.
Note: Before you can reconcile an impound bank account, you must set up at least one account as an impound account.
For a graphical representation of the bank account reconciliation process, see the bank account reconciliation workflow.
Resources to help you through the reconciliation process
Bank account reconciliation workflow
Reconciling impound bank accounts
Clearing transactions during bank account reconciliation
Importing bank statements for reconciliation
Importing statements for impound bank account reconciliation
Potential reasons that certain transaction are not available to be modified
Troubleshooting an unreconciled amount in bank account reconciliation
Tasks you can do within the Reconcile Bank Accounts screen and the Reconcile Impound Bank Accounts screen
Each of the tabbed pages in these screens focuses on a different aspect of the reconciliation process.
- Download transactions from your financial institution and then match those transactions to those entered in Accounting CS via the Bank Statement Import tab.
- Clear Accounting CS transactions in the Deposits & Additions tab, the Checks & Payments tab, and the Direct Deposit tab using a printed or online bank statement.
- Manually enter adjustments for the client in the Client Adjustment Transmittal tab, and then have the client make those same changes in their bank account records.
- View the unreconciled amount and a summary of the reconciliation in the Account Summary tab and, if necessary, make adjustments to the bank account for the unreconciled amount.
- View information about the source of data for unreconciled accounts and possible causes of the unreconciled amount in the Reconciliation Summary tab.
Depending on which tabbed page is active, the Edit menu and right-click context menu may include commands that enable you to do the following tasks.
- Specify options for reconciliation frequency and the number of final reconciliations for each bank account, and choose which columns to display in the various tabbed pages.
- Specify options for impound reconciliation frequency and the number of final reconciliations for each bank account, and choose which columns to display in the various tabbed pages.
- Distribute adjustment amounts to multiple GL accounts.
- Quickly enter checks and debits from a bank statement and have Accounting CS automatically match those with transactions in the application.
- Enter or correct outstanding transactions from previous reconciliations that were completed in another accounting application.
- Enter amounts for checks and deposits from up to 12 bank statements and have the application transfer those amounts to the appropriate fields in the Reconcile Bank Accounts screen.
- Enter one-time and recurring adjustments and fees and have the application automatically mark them as cleared.
- Clear multiple checks at the same time by specifying a range of checks to clear based on reference number.
- Unfinalize a reconciliation to make corrections, such as unclearing a transaction to modify, void, or delete it.
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