Vendor statement reconciliation
In accounting, vendor statement reconciliation means comparing a vendor's statement of account to what our AP subledger shows for that vendor, and clearing the differences — an unrecorded bill, a payment in transit, a disputed charge. It is how unrecorded liabilities and duplicates surface.
Authority: Internal control — SOX §404 (opens in a new tab). Sources
The lesson that teaches this
From the free founder back-office course, taught on one company's books, with exercises to work it yourself.
What it is not called
Each of these means something else. Use one here and an accountant reading the product notices.
- AP reconciliation (subledger to control account)
- vendor statement alone
Nearby in the catalog
No component names this concept outright. These sit in the same part of the system.
Also in Payables
Defined in Lexicon. This page is generated from that document, so the two can't disagree.