Question

Why is it important to prepare a bank reconciliation each month for each account? Have you ever prepared one of these for your personal finances? If so, relate it back to how it would work for a business.

Answer 1

It‘s not compulsory to prepare a BRS and there’s no fixed date for preparing BRS. BRS is prepared on a periodical basis for checking that bank related transactions are recorded properly in cash book’s bank column and also by the bank in their books. BRS helps to detect errors in recording transactions and determining the exact bank balance as on a specified date.

Sometimes the bank balances as per cash book and bank statement doesn’t match. In case balance available in the passbook doesn’t match the bank column of the cash book, the business should identify the reasons for the same. It is important to reconcile the differences.