Reconciliations

Reconciliations

Purpose and when to use this record

Reconcile a bank or card account to a statement ending balance, including service charges and earned interest.

At a glance

• Identify it by: Statement Date, Service Charge Date, and Interest Date.

• Check its business context: Account, Service Charge Account, and Interest Account.

• Why care: Dates, accounts, amounts, posting state, and period locks can change financial reports. Verify them against the source document before finalizing the record.

Before you begin

You need the Brisk permission for the action you are taking on reconciliations. If a Create, Edit, or Delete control is absent, do not work around it with another user’s account; ask an administrator to review your role.

Have valid Account records ready first. Those selections determine where this reconciliation belongs and which later screens can find it.

Create a reconciliation

Create a reconciliation only after confirming that the source document or operational event has not already been entered.

1. Select the business context first: Account, Service Charge Account, and Interest Account.

2. Enter the required identifying and operational values: Account, and Statement Date.

3. Review Ending Balance, Service Charge, Service Charge Date, Interest, and Interest Date against the source document or approved setup decision.

4. Save the reconciliation, then confirm Statement Date, Service Charge Date, and Interest Date on its detail page before continuing.

After saving: Resolve any remaining difference before treating the statement as reconciled; service charges and interest should land in the selected accounts.

Edit an existing reconciliation

Edit this reconciliation to correct or complete the same source document or operational event; use the supported reversal or follow-up workflow when the business event itself changed.

1. Open the detail page. Compare Account, Service Charge Account, and Interest Account with the supporting document or approved request.

2. Recheck Account, Statement Date, Ending Balance, Service Charge Date, Service Charge Account, and Interest Date, plus the remaining screen fields. These values are most likely to change account balances, financial periods, and statement results.

3. Save the change, return to the list, and confirm that the reconciliation now appears under the expected Statement Date, Service Charge Date, and Interest Date.

After the change: Resolve any remaining difference before treating the statement as reconciled; service charges and interest should land in the selected accounts.

Find and review reconciliations

Use the Reconciliations list to find the correct record before opening or changing it. Compare Statement Date, Service Charge Date, and Interest Date. Records with similar names or numbers can still belong to different Account, Service Charge Account, and Interest Account.

• Narrow the list with Account filters.

Open the reconciliation whose Statement Date, Service Charge Date, and Interest Date match the task. If it is missing, clear the list filters and recheck Account rather than creating a replacement immediately.

Fields and business rules

Brisk stores 9 user-relevant fields for this reconciliation, including 3 linked-record selections and 0 controlled-choice fields. Create and edit screens may hide calculated or workflow-managed values from this full reference.

Field	Required	What it controls
Account	Yes	The account associated with this reconciliation.
Statement Date	Yes	Date recorded for statement date on this reconciliation.
Ending Balance	No	The ending balance value recorded for this reconciliation.
Service Charge	No	The total amount of any service charges on this statement.
Service Charge Date	No	Record the date that the service charge was levied by the bank.
Service Charge Account	No	Set the account that the balancing transaction for the service charges will post to.
Interest	No	The total amount of interest earned on this statement.
Interest Date	No	Record the date that the interest was deposited by the bank.
Interest Account	No	Set the account that the balancing transaction for the interest earned will post to.

What happens next

Resolve any remaining difference before treating the statement as reconciled; service charges and interest should land in the selected accounts.

Common mistakes and troubleshooting

• The record will not save: Recheck Account, and Statement Date and any message beside the field. A required related record may also be inactive or unavailable to your role.

• The values look right but the result is wrong: Open Account, Service Charge Account, and Interest Account from the detail page. Correct the specific relationship that is wrong instead of forcing a total or status to compensate for it.