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October 7, 2026
A bank reconciliation is a check of your accounts to make sure they match the transactions in your bank account.
Limited companies (AS) must carry out a bank reconciliation every month. This means checking that the transactions in your bank account have been recorded in your accounts, and that the balance in your bank account matches the balance in your accounts.
The purpose of a bank reconciliation is to check that the bank account transactions in your accounts match the actual transactions in your bank.
You check that the transactions in your bank account have been recorded in your accounts, and that the balance in your bank account matches the balance in your accounts.
Go to the top menu > Accounting > Bank statement reconciliation.
Download your bank statement from your bank as a PDF, and upload it to Conta by clicking «Upload bank statement». If you have already uploaded it, you can also select it from your uploaded vouchers.
Check that you have selected the correct month, ledger account and bank account.
If the balances match, you can complete the reconciliation. Click «Approve bank statement reconciliation».
A discrepancy in the bank statement reconciliation means that the figures in your accounts do not match the figures from your bank account. Usually, this just means that something has not been recorded, or that an incorrect amount or date has been entered on a voucher.
If there is a discrepancy, the first step is to check whether you have any bank fees, card fees or interest that have not been recorded.
If there is still a discrepancy, the second step is to check whether you have a bill or invoice that matches the discrepancy amount exactly. If so, it is easy to identify, and you just need to record it in your accounts before you close the month.
If you cannot find an amount that matches the discrepancy, there may be several errors.
If there is no obvious error, you will need to go through your bank statement line by line and compare it with what is in your accounts. Check the date and amount, and above all that the sign (+/−) on the voucher matches the bank statement.