Start networking and exchanging professional insights

Register now or log in to join your professional community.

Follow

What is the purpose of bank reconciliation statement? as an auditor? as an accountant?

user-image
Question added by Fraz Mehmood , Financial Analysis , Alfahim
Date Posted: 2013/10/02
Menerva Melad
by Menerva Melad , Account Executive, Key Accounts , Graphic Home Company

the main purpose for the accountant in preparing bank reconcilation is to close the differences between books balances and banks balances

Ghulam Hussain
by Ghulam Hussain , Designation - Manager Accounts and Admin , UNITED ADVOCATES

As an accountant. BRS is a control mechanism to identify and record appropriately any miss outs. it also helps in giving an insight to the fund flow of the company.

As an auditor, BRS is particularly important if there is a significant difference in bank balance and book balance. it will help in tracing the transactions causing the difference and hence verifying the geniuneness of the account balances.

 

Deleted user
by Deleted user

bank reconcelation is a detective control and detect oiutstandings for accountant to post it

Ali Ahmad
by Ali Ahmad , Manager Internal Audit , International Accountants

the main purpose for the accountant in preparing bank reconcilation is to close the differences between books balances and banks balances, in the other hand,to ensure that all payments and reciepts have been recorded correctly. While the Auditor has to ensure that the control over banks balances has been existed, and bank balances in general ledger represented fairly and correctly in financial statments. 

Musa Muhammad Dandikko
by Musa Muhammad Dandikko , Ag. Head of Procurement , Federal College of Education, Katsina

As an Accountant, the Bank Reconciliation will assist you in resolving the differences existing as far as Organization's transaction in relation to banks.

As an Auditor, it will assist you in verifying the genuineness of the reconcilation prepared by the accountant

Muhammad Asif Jajja
by Muhammad Asif Jajja , Accountant , Pakistan Veterinary Medical Council

Bank reconciliation statements reconcile the bank's records with your company's general ledger. This reconciliation should be completed monthly to check for errors or unauthorized withdrawals. 

At the time of annual audit, the auditors will always examine the company's ending bank reconciliation as part of their testing procedures

Hassan Abbas awan
by Hassan Abbas awan , Senior Accountant , Green Valley premium hyper maket

As accountant it assist in resolving the difference between bank statement and ledgers.

 

As auditior out main objective of the verify the genuineness of recon, but auditor one thing auditor  should keenly observe and than inquire managent about the long outstanding balances in Bank recon.

 

Mohamed Elgharib
by Mohamed Elgharib , محاسب أول - مدير فرع , المستورد الأمثل التجارية

.

Fady Nicola
by Fady Nicola , Service Manager , Kuwait Oil Company

As an accountnt:

it will help you to know the cash position for the company

and to classsified you future withdrawal

 

as an Auditor

 

it will help you in cash fllow to if this company

and to compare between the revienue

 

that will achioeve the principle of company Going Concern

tarik MAHGOUP
by tarik MAHGOUP , AUDIT MANAGER , OSSAMAH TABBARAH CHARTRED ACCOUNTANT

bank reconcilation is to confirm the book balance and to find out the diferences and reconcile these difrences to ensure that all transaction happened during the period are taken up---- an accontant

an auditor --- consider as a control procedure helps verifying the balances of financial position

عبد الحكيم أحمد سعيد الصباري
by عبد الحكيم أحمد سعيد الصباري , المدير التنفيذي , دار الخبراء لتطوير الأعمال

يدعم المركز المالي للشركة ويبين قوة الموقف المالي الخاص بها.

More Questions Like This