Overview
The Bank Reconciliation feature in Accounting Seed is a tool to verify that all transactions in your bank or credit card account are recorded in the general ledger as Cash Receipts, Cash Disbursements, and Journal Entry adjustments. This can be used for both bank and credit card reconciliations. You will need your statement for the statement end date selected in the new reconciliation screen to perform this exercise. In the reconciliation you are able to clear four types of records:
- Bank Deposit: a group of Cash Receipts and/or Journal Entry Lines
- Cash Receipt: a single Cash Receipt
- Cash Disbursement
- Journal Entry Lines
If you are using multi-currency, only the transactions in the bank reconciliation currency are available to select. When you create a new bank reconciliation you also create a currency.
Steps
- Navigate to Accounting Home and under Banking, click Bank Reconciliation.
- Click New.
- Enter the following four fields of information from your statement:
- Start Date
- You are able to clear up to 4000 transactions in one bank reconciliation. If your transactions exceed this amount, then use your Start Date and End Date to reduce the population size to meet this criteria. If this is not applicable to you, you should set your Start Date far enough in the past to make available all prior uncleared transactions in your bank reconciliation.
- End Date
- Beginning Balance
- Note: Unless this is the first bank reconciliation for the account, the beginning balance will auto-populate with the ending balance from the prior period’s bank reconciliation.
- Ending Balance
- Note: If this is a bank reconciliation, beginning and ending balances should be positive, unless the account is overdrawn. If this is a credit card reconciliation, these should be negative numbers since the credit card is a liability. If the credit card account started with a balance and was completely paid off, then the beginning balance would be negative and the ending balance would be $0.
- Select the GL Account that represents the bank or credit card account in Accounting Seed.
- Select the Ledger where these transactions are recorded.
- Select the Currency in which these transactions are recorded.
- Accounting Seed supports foreign currency bank and credit card reconciliations. This step applies only to the clients who have multi-currency enabled in Accounting Seed and have foreign currency bank and credit card statements. Only Bank Deposits, Cash Receipts, Cash Disbursements, and Journal Entries of that currency will be available for the bank reconciliation.
- Click the Save button.
- Click the Clear/Unclear Transactions button which will take you to the Clear/Unclear transactions screen.
- In the lower right pane, you will see all Bank Deposits, Cash Receipts, Cash Disbursements, and Journal Entry Lines in the selected date range that are not associated with another reconciliation, along with a link to their individual source record. You are able to increase and decrease the date range to find more transactions.
- Select the transactions that have cleared in your statement. Enter the correct cleared date per the statement if different from the transaction date recorded in Accounting Seed.
- For faster processing, the Cleared Date field will auto-populate on Cash Disbursements, Cash Receipts, and Journal Entries matched or created in Bank Direct Connect and in Financial File Import. Additionally, the Cleared Date field will auto-populate on Bank Deposit records matched in Bank Direct Connect and in Financial File Import. Bank Reconciliation records that have the Cleared Date field populated will be auto-checked in the Bank Reconciliation’s Uncleared Transactions table to aid in reconciliation.
- Click the Clear Selected button. The items will move to the Clear Transactions lower left pane.
Note: In the event that you need to move a Cleared Transaction back to the Unclear Transaction status, simply select the item(s) and click the Unclear Selected button. This will move the item(s) back under the Uncleared Transactions. - The reconciliation is complete when the total cleared deposits and disbursements match your statement and uncleared amount equals zero.
Generate a PDF Report
- On the Bank Reconciliation page click the Create Reconciliation Report button.
- On the Bank Reconciliation Report page click the Create and Attach Reports button. Two PDF reports will be generated and automatically attached to the Bank Reconciliation in the Files related list:
- Bank Reconciliation Report Cleared
- Bank Reconciliation Report Uncleared
- Review the Uncleared Transactions report. This report will identify all deposits-in-transit and outstanding checks as of the Bank Reconciliation end date. You may then use this report to create a Bank to General Ledger reconciliation. Additionally, you can use this report to identify any old transactions created in Accounting Seed by error and never cleared in your bank/credit card account. These should be unposted and deleted.
Notes
- Typically there are no uncleared deposits or cash receipts.
- Uncleared cash disbursements typically show outstanding checks to vendors that were issued, but not cashed yet.
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- For faster processing, the Cleared Date field will now auto-populate on Cash Disbursements, Cash Receipts, and Journal Entries matched or created in Bank Direct Connect and in Financial File Import. Additionally, the Cleared Date field will auto-populate on Bank Deposit records matched in Bank Direct Connect and in Financial File Import. Bank Reconciliation records that have the Cleared Date field populated will be auto-checked in the Bank Reconciliation’s Uncleared Transactions table to aid in reconciliation.
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Bank Reconciliation has been extended to support multi-currency.
Comments
9 comments
Please consider adding the Bank Reconciliation field to the Journal Entry header. This would be helpful information, as "un-associating" with bank rec is required to unpost a GL entry to change a GL Variable on it that was entered incorrectly. (I actually field the GL variable field should be editable without unposting the entry!).
Thanks!
Journal Entry Detail
Hi Jeanae,
This can be added to the JE line. If you are on the journal entry header screen, you will see the journal entry lines related list. If you edit this, you can add the bank rec field as a column. Will this work for you?
The reason that we don't have it on the header is because a JE can have multiple lines that are related to different bank recs.
Thank you,
Ryan
Feature request: Allow editing of reconciled items:
https://support.accountingseed.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115007821147-Please-let-us-unpost-reconciled-records-without-unreconciling-them
We have approximately 40 corporate cards at this time, with the number increasing as we expand. Does this require approach require separate General Ledger accounts for each credit card? Also, our team is trained to enter their credit card expesnes in an "Expense Report" and attach the receipts. Currently, you don't have any sort of similar process, correct? Your system requires separate general ledger entries for each credit card receipt, correct?
Hi Jeanae,
There is an expense report feature that you can use for managing corporate cards - I've done it with other clients. It works quite well. You can upload their statements into the expense report format, and then they can code their own expenses and attach receipts to the expense report record. Once approved, the expense report can be turned into a payable to be paid.
Each user that will be coding their own expenses has to have an Accounting Seed license.
Team,
Is there a way for doing reconciliation in mass update? We know it's not a good idea for auditing purpose but we are curious if this could be done via excel sheet and then uploading it back.
Hi Richa,
Currently, this must be done in the system, but we are looking to allow for open API for this reason.
Thank you,
Ryan
Thanks Ryan, that will be really helpful.
Team ,
We brought in the TB now this is being shown in the uncleared section when we generate the report.
Is there anything that could be done here since these were reconciled in QB.
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