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Finance Data Cleanup & Reconciliation Services

Clean, organise and reconcile accounting data so your finance team can work from a more consistent set of records. CorporateWalla can help review ledgers, bank reconciliations, AR/AP, suspense balances, opening balances and selected supporting schedules based on the agreed scope.

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What Is Finance Data Cleanup?

Finance data cleanup is the process of identifying and resolving agreed accounting-data issues such as unreconciled balances, duplicate or incomplete records, incorrect classifications, old outstanding items and inconsistencies between accounting records and supporting information.

Reconciliation work compares records against an appropriate source and documents exceptions rather than making unsupported assumptions.

What We Can Clean or Reconcile

Depending on scope:

  • Bank and cash reconciliations
  • General-ledger review
  • Trial-balance review
  • Suspense and clearing accounts
  • Accounts receivable balances
  • Accounts payable balances
  • Customer and vendor ledgers
  • Advances and deposits
  • Credit and debit note balances
  • Intercompany balances
  • Fixed-asset schedules
  • Inventory-related accounting records
  • Opening balances
  • Payment-gateway or marketplace settlements
  • Selected tax-ledger reconciliations
  • Accounting-system master data
  • Duplicate or inconsistent transaction records

Typical Data Problems

  • Old unreconciled bank entries
  • Duplicate transactions
  • Missing transaction support
  • Incorrect ledger classification
  • Unexplained suspense balances
  • Customer or vendor balances that do not agree with supporting records
  • Opening balances carried forward without adequate reconciliation
  • Differences between sub-ledgers and the general ledger
  • Payment-gateway or marketplace settlements that do not reconcile to books
  • Inconsistent chart-of-accounts mapping
  • Historical bookkeeping gaps
  • Manual spreadsheet adjustments without a clear audit trail

Common Reconciliation Areas

Bank Reconciliation

Compare book balances with bank statements, identify timing differences and investigate unexplained items.

AR Reconciliation

Compare customer ledgers with invoices, receipts, credit notes and other agreed records.

AP Reconciliation

Compare vendor balances with invoices, payments, debit/credit notes and available statements. For ongoing receivable and payable work, see AR/AP management.

General Ledger

Review unusual, aged, suspense or inconsistent balances and identify items requiring correction or further evidence.

Intercompany

Compare balances between related entities and identify mismatches requiring investigation.

Payment Platforms

Where applicable, reconcile payment-gateway or marketplace settlements with sales, fees, refunds and bank receipts based on available reports.

When This Service Is Useful

  • Before taking over bookkeeping from another provider
  • Before an accounting-system migration
  • Before establishing recurring monthly bookkeeping
  • Before management reporting where historical data has unresolved issues
  • After a period of inconsistent bookkeeping
  • When bank or ledger reconciliations have accumulated
  • When AR/AP balances require structured investigation
  • When management needs a documented list of unresolved accounting exceptions
  • As part of a broader accounting cleanup or close project

Treatment of Unresolved Items

A reconciliation should not automatically force every difference to zero. Differences may arise from timing, missing documentation, accounting classification, prior-period issues, system migration or other causes.

Where the available evidence is insufficient, CorporateWalla records the item in an exception list and seeks the required clarification or supporting document. Any proposed accounting adjustment should be appropriately supported and approved according to the agreed process.

Accounting and Tax Boundaries

Data cleanup does not automatically determine the legal or tax treatment of a transaction. Tax-sensitive items may require separate tax review.

Similarly, identifying an accounting difference does not by itself establish fraud, misstatement or misconduct. Escalation to forensic, legal, tax or audit specialists should be recommended where the facts and engagement scope require it.

Pricing

Finance data cleanup and reconciliation fees are scope-based. Pricing depends on the number of accounts, accounting periods, entities, transaction volume, source-data quality and complexity of unresolved items.

Cleanup does not guarantee that every historical error will be identified.

Transparent 3-tier pricing

Pick the speed and depth that matches your need. Same quality, same CA team — only the timeline changes.

Targeted Cleanup

Custom quote

Timeline: Quoted on accounts and periods

Bank and cash reconciliations
Suspense and clearing account review
Exception classification
Unresolved-items list
AR/AP and customer/vendor ledger reconciliation
Intercompany and opening-balance review
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Ledger Cleanup

Custom quote

Timeline: Quoted on transaction volume and source-data quality

Everything in Targeted Cleanup
General-ledger and trial-balance review
AR and AP reconciliation
Advances, deposits and credit/debit note balances
Duplicate and misclassified transaction correction
Payment-gateway or marketplace settlement reconciliation
Supporting schedules for validated closing balances

Multi-Entity

Custom quote

Timeline: Quoted on entities and historical periods

Everything in Ledger Cleanup
Intercompany balance reconciliation
Opening-balance review
Fixed-asset and inventory-related records
Accounting-system master data cleanup
Selected tax-ledger reconciliations
Migration mapping and technical conversion

Every price above is a professional fee, excluding GST and government charges. 50% on delivery.

Finance data cleanup and reconciliation fees are customised to the accounting periods, accounts and complexity involved. The proposal depends on the number of accounts, accounting periods, entities, transaction volume, source-data quality and complexity of unresolved items.

How it works

Step 1

Scope the cleanup

Define the accounting periods, accounts, entities and reconciliation objectives.

Step 2

Collect source data

Obtain accounting exports, bank statements and other relevant supporting records.

Step 3

Profile the data

Identify missing information, duplicate records, unusual balances and reconciliation exceptions.

Step 4

Reconcile

Compare accounting records to appropriate source data within the agreed scope.

Step 5

Classify exceptions

Separate identified errors, timing differences, missing information and items requiring management decisions.

Step 6

Correct agreed items

Process or recommend corrections supported by available evidence.

Step 7

Document unresolved items

Maintain an exception list instead of making unsupported assumptions.

Step 8

Validate closing balances

Confirm the agreed reconciliation position and hand over supporting schedules.

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Documents required

Accounting-system export
Trial balance
General ledger
Bank statements
Bank reconciliation reports
Customer and vendor ledgers
AR/AP ageing
Customer/vendor statements
Invoices and credit/debit notes
Payment reports
Payment-gateway or marketplace reports
Fixed-asset register
Inventory reports
Prior-year closing balances
Tax or compliance reports where relevant
Existing reconciliation schedules

Why CorporateWalla®?

Evidence-based corrections

Corrections are processed or recommended only where supported by available evidence.

Classified exceptions

Errors, timing differences, missing information and items needing management decisions are separated, not lumped together.

A documented exception list

Unresolved items are recorded and followed up rather than forced to zero or guessed.

Validated closing balances

An agreed reconciliation position and supporting schedules ready for reporting, migration or ongoing bookkeeping.

Frequently asked questions

It is the structured review, correction and reconciliation of accounting data to address identified inconsistencies, missing information, duplicate records and unreconciled balances.

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