QuickBooks 2014 The Guide, 2nd Edition

Chapter 13

Balancing Your Bank Accounts

In this chapter:

•  Work in the QuickBooks reconciliation windows

•  Find and fix discrepancies

Reconciling a bank account is one of the most important tasks connected with financial record keeping—but ironically, it’s also one of the most avoided tasks. When you use QuickBooks, however, the job of reconciling your accounts becomes a very manageable one.

Reconcile in QuickBooks

Most of the time, performing a bank reconciliation in QuickBooks is easy and straightforward. If you’ve been keeping your QuickBooks up to date, you shouldn’t have to make a lot of “catch-up” entries because most of the data you need ...