How to Reconcile Bank Statements in Excel

The hardest part of reconciliation is usually getting the statement into an analyzable table. Once transactions are in a clean table, filtering, matching, and finding differences is far faster.

Quick answer

Move the statement (PDF/image) into Excel with the bank statement flow; get transaction date, description, amount, and balance columns, then reconcile in the table.

Reconciliation steps

• Sort transactions by date and amount.
• Mark the ones matching your records.
• Filter unmatched rows (differences) separately.

If you need CSV

To push reconciliation data into another system, use the PDF to CSV converter.

Frequently asked questions

Do scanned statements work?

Yes — OCR reads the text and extracts the table.

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