What problem does it solve?
Helps accounting and finance teams identify, explain, and resolve differences between general ledger control balances and supporting records such as subledgers, bank statements, or intercompany ledgers to enable accurate period close and reliable financial reporting.
Core Features & Use Cases
- GL-to-Subledger Comparison: Walks through pulling period-end GL control balances and matching them to subledger totals to find timing differences, missing entries, and posting errors.
- Bank Reconciliation Guidance: Provides the standard bank reconciliation format and steps to identify outstanding checks, deposits in transit, bank fees, and required adjusting entries.
- Intercompany & Aging Analysis: Describes comparison of reciprocal balances across entities, categorization of reconciling items by cause and age, and escalation thresholds for stale or material items.
- Best Practices & Documentation: Recommends timeliness, segregation of duties, required metadata (preparer, reviewer, dates), and tracking of open items and root-cause remediation.
Quick Start
Reconcile account "Cash 1010" for period 2023-03 by comparing the GL balance to the bank statement, list outstanding checks and deposits in transit, propose required adjusting entries, and flag items older than 60 days for escalation.