Accounting, Tax & Bookkeeping// topic
Reconciliation, coding and month-end close
In short
Rules-first transaction coding, matching logic, and an exception queue that surfaces only what a human genuinely has to decide.
3 pages
definitions
- Flux analysis, and the thresholds that stop it being noiseEvery account compared against a prior period or a budget, with a written explanation required past a threshold — and the threshold has to be two numbers, not one.definition6 min
- The suspense account, and why an automated coder must be barred from itA suspense account holds an amount whose treatment a named person has not yet established. It is a human instrument, which is exactly why an automated coder must not write to it.definition6 min
- What a bank reconciliation statement has to prove, as a data objectNot a document but an assertion: two balances, a list of items explaining the gap, and enough stored evidence for someone else to recompute it months later.definition6 min
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