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Using Caseware and Wagepoint to streamline your EOFY

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Complete year-end compliance work faster with Caseware Caseware is a Canadian-born, global provider of audit, financial reporting and data analytics solutions for accountants and bookkeepers. It’s all part of our work to make life better for people in small business and their advisors across Canada.

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How to reconcile the general ledger

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Related Courses Accountants’ Guidebook Bookkeeper Education Bundle Bookkeeping Guidebook The general ledger is the master set of accounts that aggregates all transactions recorded for a business. The reconciliation process at the account level typically comprises the following steps: Beginning balance investigation.

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The difference between the general ledger and trial balance

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What is a General Ledger? A general ledger is the master set of accounts that summarize all transactions occurring within an entity. The general ledger is comprised of all the individual accounts needed to record the assets , liabilities , equity , revenue , expense , gain , and loss transactions of a business.

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Balancing automation and compliance in expense reporting

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Managing and Auditing Expense Approvals Expense approvals are often managed offline, through email, or possibly even through Slack or Teams. While there is technically an audit trail when the review and approval expenses take place via email, getting access to these sources of information can be a completely different story.

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What Is General Ledger Reconciliation?

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General Ledger Reconciliation The General Ledger (GL) is a silent custodian of a company's financial narrative. These documents provide supplementary details and serve as external sources of validation for the transactions recorded in the general ledger.    What is the General Ledger?

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General Ledger (GL): Definition, Significance, Implementation

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Welcome to our latest blog post, where we embark on a deep dive into the intricacies of the General Ledger (GL) — the bedrock of any business's financial system. We will start with the basics: What exactly is a General Ledger, and why is it paramount to your business's financial health?

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The importance of General Ledger reconciliation for financial reporting

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Maintaining accurate financial records is vital for any business, and the general ledger, as the central repository of financial transactions, plays a critical role in this process. Ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the general ledger requires regular reconciliation. What is general ledger reconciliation?