One month bank transaction reconciliation for your books

Unbalanced bank records are a frequent cause of tax confusion, unexpected cash-flow gaps and stressful audits for small businesses. One month left unchecked can quickly turn into hours of corrective work, plus avoidable mistakes on your tax filings. Sorting out just one month gives you a reliable financial starting point, a clear picture of your spending, and confidence that your numbers are correct.

This service provides a thorough, line-by-line check of one calendar month's worth of bank or credit-card activity, handling as many as 50 separate entries. Each transaction is carefully cross-checked against your official statement total. Along the way, duplicate charges are identified, any missing receipts are flagged, and unusual items are explained in straightforward terms. You receive the finished reconciliation as a tidy, ready-to-use file in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets format, so it fits easily into your existing records or can be passed directly to your tax preparer.

To begin, you simply provide your bank or credit-card statement for the relevant month as a PDF or CSV file, together with the closing balance shown in your accounting software or ledger. There is no need to grant direct access to your bank account unless you would rather do it that way. The reconciliation is carried out by hand by a Certified Management Accountant holding an ICMAP Greater Distinction qualification, so every figure is checked by a person rather than left to automated matching tools.

Think of this as a low-commitment, practical way to sample ongoing monthly bookkeeping, bank reconciliation and regular financial reporting. If the precision, clarity and quick turnaround suit your needs, moving up to cover every month of the year, full profit and loss statements, and a complete reporting package is a simple next step. Well-kept books are not an extra; they are the foundation that every stable business relies on.

What happens after you buy

Your order opens its own thread here the moment it is paid, and everything about that order - questions, changes and the final report - happens in it.