Cheque Reconciliation

The Cheque Reconciliation service allows you to reconcile your issued cheques by matching them to your paid cheques. To perform a reconciliation you:

1. Upload your issued cheques into ScotiaConnect.

2. Conduct any necessary cheque maintenance (i.e. adding, deleting or modifying issued cheques)

3. View reports of matched and outstanding cheques.

4. Force match cheques that meet selected criteria.

The Outstanding Cheques screen enables you to view:

· Outstanding cheques that have been issued, but not paid

· Cheques that have been paid but not issued

To view your outstanding cheques:

1. If necessary, upload your most recent issued cheques file into ScotiaConnect.

· Click on the Issued Cheque Upload link to access the File Upload screen.

2. If you need to add, delete or modify any issued cheques, you can do so on the Issued Cheque Maintenance screen.

· Click on the Cheque Maintenance link to access the Issued Cheque Maintenance screen.

· Perform the required maintenance.

· Click on the Outstanding Cheques link to return to the Outstanding Cheques screen.

3. On the Outstanding Cheques screen, select the account for which you would like to see the outstanding cheques from the Account dropdown menu.

4. Select the cheque type that you would like to see (issued, paid, or issued and paid).

5. From the Date dropdown menu, select the time frame that you are interested in. If you select Date Range, click on to select the range of dates.

6. To view the report:

· Click on the View button.

· To view details of a specific Outstanding Issued Cheque, click on the Serial # to access the Issued Cheque Details window.

7. To print the report:

· Click on the Report button to receive a formatted report; or

· Print directly from the browser and receive what is displayed on-screen.

You may force match outstanding issued and paid cheques that meet your selected criteria.

To Force Match:

1. On the lower half of the Outstanding Cheque screen, place a check mark in the Match field beside the cheque in question.

2. Click on the Force Match button to manually reconcile the selected cheque.