Any time the same data lives in two places, it can drift. MetiRecon proves the two sides agree - or shows you exactly where they don't. Here are the jobs people rely on it for.
Compare this period's ledger, sub-ledger or trial balance against last period or against a source system, to confirm every account ties out before the books are closed. Modified, added and deleted entries are isolated so nothing is signed off unseen.
Match a bank statement export against your internal cash ledger to spot unrecorded fees, duplicate postings, timing differences and missing transactions - line by line, with tolerances for rounding.
Migrating to a new ERP, core banking or database? Reconcile the PRE (old system) extract against the POST (new system) extract to prove the migration was complete and lossless - record counts, keys and values all accounted for.
Produce defensible evidence that two data sets agree. Export a PDF or Excel report that documents exactly what matched and what changed, ready for internal or external auditors.
Reconcile the output of two systems that should agree - billing vs. general ledger, CRM vs. invoicing, warehouse vs. accounting - and catch integration gaps before they reach a report.
Before you circulate a report, compare the new extract with the previous trusted version to confirm only the expected rows changed. A fast sanity check that prevents embarrassing errors.
Reconciliation is a core task for accountants and controllers during close, for finance consultants validating client data, for auditors gathering evidence and for data and migration engineers proving that a move from one system to another lost nothing along the way. The common thread: two files that must agree and no appetite for a missed difference.
Whatever the scenario, the workflow is the same - pick keys, map columns, set tolerances, review the differences and export. Our step-by-step guide walks through each stage and if you have been doing this by hand, see why a dedicated tool beats reconciling in Excel.