The Hidden 50% of an Accountant's Life: Bank Reconciliations
While bill entry gets all the attention, bank statement reconciliation consumes half of an accounting firm's billable hours. Every month, clients dump 15-page PDFs from HDFC, SBI, ICICI, Axis, or Kotak Bank.
Accountants manually punch each transaction row:
- Withdrawals (Debits): Typed as
Payment Vouchers - Deposits (Credits): Typed as
Receipt Vouchers - Cash / ATM transfers: Typed as
Contra Vouchers - Cheque / UTR Ref: Manually copied into the bank allocation sub-screen.
How EntryFlow Ingests Bank Statements in 3 Steps
- Upload Bank Statement PDF: Drop the original PDF download from NetBanking into EntryFlow.
- Auto-Classification: The engine distinguishes payments from receipts and flags cash transactions as Contras.
- 1-Click XML Export: Press
Alt + Oin Tally Prime. 400 bank entries populate your Day Book with complete narrations and UTR numbers.