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Bank Reconciliation

Definition: A bank reconciliation is a comparison between the cash position recorded on an entity's books and the position noted on the records of its bank, usually resulting in some changes to the book balance to account for transactions that are recorded on the bank's records but not the entity's, such as bank fees and interest income.

See the bank reconciliation procedure for a detailed decription of how to complete a bank reconciliation.