How-to6 min
Accounts receivable reconciliation example: invoices to closing balance
Follow a worked AR reconciliation example with invoice balances, combined and partial payments, a credit memo, and an explained ledger difference.
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Practical incoming-payment reconciliation guides
Procedures, examples, and controls for people who need to explain how customer cash connects to open invoices. No arbitrary word count and no invented benchmark claims.
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How-to5 min
How to reconcile bank deposits with invoices: three worked cases
Match a direct deposit, a combined customer payment, and a fee-net processor payout to invoices without hiding partials or unexplained differences.
How-to8 min
How to reconcile customer payments to invoices
A practical source-to-ledger procedure for matching incoming customer payments, reviewing discrepancies, and preserving evidence.
How-to7 min
How to match one payment to multiple invoices
Find and verify the invoice combination behind a lump-sum customer payment without relying on amount coincidence alone.
How-to6 min
What to do when a customer pays multiple invoices in one ACH
Use ACH originator details, remittance references, and open balances to document a multi-invoice customer payment.
How-to7 min
How to handle partial invoice payments
Document partial customer payments, preserve the open balance, and distinguish installments from deductions or errors.
How-to7 min
How to reconcile processing fees against invoices
Explain fee-net deposits without silently reducing customer invoice balances or assuming every difference is a processor fee.
Checklist6 min
Invoice reconciliation checklist
A repeatable checklist for validating source files, reviewing match evidence, resolving exceptions, and verifying exports.
Explainer8 min
Accounts receivable reconciliation: meaning and process
Understand AR reconciliation, customer payment application, the control account, aging, unapplied cash, and common exceptions.
Explainer7 min
What is cash application? Meaning, process and examples
Cash application means allocating customer payments to invoices. See a simple example, the steps involved, and how it differs from bank reconciliation.
How-to9 min
How to reconcile invoices in Excel
Set up source tables, normalized columns, applications, exceptions, formulas, and controls for incoming payment reconciliation in Excel.
Explainer7 min
Why bank deposits and invoice totals do not always match
Understand grouped deposits, fees, partials, deductions, timing, credits, currency, and data issues before forcing a match.