Printing reconciliation reports

[Phil Longstaff]

Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Or one could just supply the bank statement, which has the
>> exact same information.
> 
> The bank statement does not have the unpresented cheques and unrecorded 
> deposits to allow the balances to tally.
> I get the impression that the concept "the reconciliation statement" is not 
> used in the US, because it certainly is a different concept to the bank 
> statement. It is to explain the differences between the bank's version of the 
> account, and the version of the account kept by the account holder.

It is used.  I worked for a while in a financial office installing and
integrating new accounting software, and the reconciliation statement
was an important product.

Phil