Reconciling your Bank Accounts with Your Books

Typically a business should have a Cash account in their general ledger that tracks all of the transactions within a business.  These transactions include income from customers, payments made for business expenses, and the like.  Similarly, when a business opens a business checking account with a bank, the bank will record all of these transactions on a bank statement.  At the end of each month, the bank will close out this list of transactions and mail a statement to the business.  This will show every detail for all of the activity for that account, as well as a total balance. Read more

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