Reconciling your trust account

Learn how to complete a bank reconciliation for your trust account to regularly keep your account balances accurate.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• Prepare the trust account for reconciliation
• Reconcile the bank account
• Reconciliation tips

Getting Started

A bank reconciliation is a task you do at regular intervals during the year to make sure the transactions in your trust bank account match up with transactions processed through triConvey.

It is best practice to do reconciliations monthly, especially if there is a steady stream of incoming and outgoing transactions over the month.

Prepare the trust account for reconciliation

Before you begin, make sure that all transactions for the period you are reconciling have been entered into triConvey.

If you entered the wrong date for a trust payment, reverse the transaction and recreate it with the correct date.  There will be a record of the reversal however the correction will still be processed and the reconciliation will be accurate.

Also, have a copy of the bank statement for your trust bank account on hand for easy reference.

Reconcile the bank account

1.    Open the triConvey Companion Site Web App.

2.    Select Accounts from the left menu.

3.    Click the Bank Reconciliation tab and then select Create Reconciliation.

4.    In the bank reconciliation screen, navigate to the right panel and then enter the date range of your bank statement. 

Tip:  This will be the reconciliation period.

If this is not the first bank reconciliation in triConvey, the starting date will be greyed out. Enter the ending date.

5.    Go to your bank statement and find the closing balance.

Tip:  This is the balance in the bank account as of the end of the statement date.

6.    Enter the balance in the Bank Statement Balance field.

7.    Navigate to the list of transactions in the Payments and Receipts tab.

8.    With your bank statement on hand, tick the box next to each transaction that shows up in the bank statement.

9.    As you tick the transactions, the Reconciliation Balance in red text on the right side of the screen will update with a revised balance. Once all relevant transactions are ticked, the figure will change to blue text and show the same figure as your bank statement balance:

10.   Select Reconcile and then select Complete. 

It is important to note that once you select Complete, the transactions in the period will be locked from editing, to prevent changes after reconciling.

11.   Print and sign the Bank Reconciliation Report that is generated.

Reconciliation tips

• If your bank account does not balance with transactions entered into triConvey even after ticking them all, there may be a transaction missing in triConvey. Find the transaction in your bank statement and ensure it’s been recorded correctly in triConvey, especially in regard to the date.
  
  
• Check that all figures are correct in triConvey and that no figures have been transposed.
  
  
• You can view the Bank Reconciliation Report at any time from the Bank Reconciliation tab.