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Bank reconciliation refers to the practice of comparing the transactions listed in your end-of-month bank account statement or statements with those in your accounting records.
Why is bank reconciliation important?
The cash in your bank account is your most liquid asset and one of the most vulnerable to fraud, theft and accounting mistakes. Regular bank reconciliation allows you to:
- Catch unauthorized transactions by criminals, employees or vendors.
- Catch errant transactions or errors in your books. Ongoing blunders – either at the hands of your own accounting staff or by external institutions – can exert unnecessary pressure on your cash flow and should be solved promptly.
- See how the processing time for financial transactions affects your cash flow.
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How often should you engage in bank reconciliation?
At minimum, we suggest that you reconcile your books once per month. This process which sounds extremely time consuming doesn't have to be provided that you use online accounting software, such as the popular all new QuickBooks, and allow the software to access your bank records. Without such a solution, bank reconciliation can be tedious.
Later in this article, we walk you through the process of doing bank reconciliation in the all new QuickBooks.
Tip: Do Not Have The Same People Doing The Reconciliation That Are Issuing Checks And Making Payments
In order to use bank reconciliations as an effective method of protecting your cash assets from internal fraud, it's vital that the employees tasked with conducting bank reconciliations are not the same people who are responsible for authorizing bank transactions or the issuing of checks.
This Is One Place Where You Should Be Directly Involved
Small business owners would also be well advised to take a hands-on approach to bank reconciliation. Examining your transactions in the context of a bank reconciliation provides a detailed perspective of your day-to-day business and will help you identify the peaks and troughs in your cash flow.
Why Your Bank Statements And Accounting Records Might Not Match Even If There Are No Errors
Often, the balance listed on your bank statement will not match the figures listed in your internal books. There are a few reasons for this.
Mismatches Due To Deposits In Transit
If checks you've issued through your accounts payable department are yet to be cashed by your creditors – known as outstanding checks – then funds will remain in your bank account while your internal bookkeeping will likely show the amount as paid, thus creating a discrepancy in the comparative figures. Likewise, funds recorded as received by your accounts receivable department may still be awaiting bank clearance at the time your statement is issued and may not be reflected in your bank statement despite appearing in your internal balance sheet. This is referred to as a deposit in transit.
Bank Fees And Variable Interest Rates
Other explanations for mismatched figures when you do bank reconciliation may be that bank fees automatically debited from your account may not be recorded on your balance sheet, and the same could be true of automatically deducted bank loan repayments that fluctuate with interest rates.
Conversely, interest credited to your bank account may similarly not be reflected in your own bookkeeping and any unexpected credits from suppliers will have the same effect.
Bank reconciliation is the process of making the above adjustments to your balance sheet, and is successfully completed when your adjusted balance matches your bank account balance.
How To Do Bank Reconciliations With QuickBooks
If the thought of finding the time or resources to conduct detailed monthly bank reconciliations is already spiking your stress levels, the good news is that the all new QuickBooks streamlines the process to save you time and money.
For starters, the simple act of keeping your accounting records digitally organized in a central location already makes bank reconciliation infinitely easier.
You can accurately track every incoming and outgoing dollar with QuickBooks, and having that data at your fingertips when it comes time for your monthly bank reconciliation already puts you ahead of the game.
More importantly however, the all new QuickBooks gives you the option to hide transactions you've recorded in your internal system after the end date of the bank statement in question. This allows you to instantly view the completed transactions and makes it much easier to identify outstanding checks, deposits in transit and any bank fees or credits.
You can also sync QuickBooks with your bank accounts and authorize the software to automatically enter and categorize transactions. You can find a link on how to do this here.
Reconciling bank statements with the all new QuickBooks is as easy as selecting the 'Banking' tap in the top menu bar, then clicking 'More' and finally 'Reconcile'.
This will take you to the reconciliation screen where you simply choose the account you want to reconcile and press 'Reconcile Now'.
Enter the bank statement start and end dates along with the beginning and ending balances for that period along with service charges and interest credits as reflected in your bank statements.
Hit 'OK' and you'll be taken to a split-screen list of transactions with 'checks and payments' displayed on the left and 'deposits and other credits' displayed on the right.
Ensure you check the box beside 'hide transactions after the statement's end date' at the top right of your screen to make the process much easier.
Now, refer to your bank statement to verify which checks and deposits have cleared and click the corresponding box to mark each listed transaction as cleared in QuickBooks.
TIP: Cleared transactions are all those transactions that are listed in your bank statement. Transactions listed in QuickBooks that don't appear on your bank statement are most likely still in transit and, outstanding payments notwithstanding, will appear as cleared transactions in your next bank statement and thus will be reconciled in QuickBooks at that time.
The all new QuickBooks keeps a running total of your cleared — or reconciled — transactions at the bottom of the display window, and once you've correctly identified all the transactions, your balance difference should equal $0 .
This is a successful bank reconciliation and you're now ready to click the 'Finish Now' button which will complete the reconciliation and display a list of reconciliation reports. Simply click on the most recent report to print it.
And the best part is that if you don't have time to complete the entire reconciliation in one sitting, QuickBooks automatically saves your progress so it's easy to pick up the task at another time.
What To Do When An Amount Does Not Reconcile
However, if you get to the end of the process and your QuickBooks balance difference at the bottom of your screen fails to equal $0, there are a few common mistakes that may be causing the discrepancy:
- An error was made in recording bank fees, interest credits or loan repayments in QuickBooks. Check the figures you entered into QuickBooks against those listed in your bank statement.
- A previously reconciled transaction has been unchecked or deleted. Refer to your bank statement and ensure all listed transactions have been marked in QuickBooks as cleared.
- Checks or deposits that are listed in your bank statement are missing in QuickBooks. Sort your QuickBooks transactions by date, then cross check against your bank statement to find any missing transactions. Any transactions that are missing in QuickBooks will need to be entered into the system before you can successfully complete a bank reconciliation.
Where You Can Look For More Advice
If you run into any problems or have any specific questions, Intuit's official community forum and QuickBooks support center are both excellent searchable resources and contain vast amounts of troubleshooting knowledge across a large range of questions and issues pertaining to running bank reconciliations in QuickBooks.
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is this "tempt pj" day?I haven't put in the buy order yet. What should pj do? The librarians may catch me any minute now...
Well, a good part of the selling in this stock is guys with employee stock options. In other words, folks who didn't pay anything for their shares. So the tendency there is to sell a little lower than anyone else is selling, regardless of the absolute price. (Being an employee of company X makes it notoriously difficult to figure out what shares of X are really worth.)Not to speak in riddles or anything, but as long as any real shareholder tries to move any shares, the employees will probably keep undercutting that price, however low it is.
Or rather er that is um they will likely keep undercutting until they run out of vested options. There are supposed to be a lot fewer of those this year (w/r/t 2005). It might be interesting to see what happens if employees suddenly run out of them. I mean, who knows, maybe they're panicking about the collapse of the housing bubble, which, well, why not? Options expire eventually, sometimes it's best to panic promptly. But I'm just saying if they are panicing too conscientiously this year, the pps would probably be higher in the second half. It's a lot of ifs.


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Structure of cycles and local ordering in complex networks
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We study the properties of quantities aimed at the characterization of grid-like ordering in complex networks. These quantities are based on the global and local behavior of cycles of order four, which are the minimal structures able to identify rectangular clustering. The analysis of data from real networks reveals the ubiquitous presence of a statistically high level of grid-like ordering that is non-trivially correlated with the local degree properties. These observations provide new insights on the hierarchical structure of complex networks.
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Favorite Dish The Orange Chicken here is very good. It's a large portion and comes with white rice. The Puffy fried shrimp are very good and come with a sweet and sour red sauce for dipping. I also enjoy their egg rolls; nice and crisp with a good filling. The ribs are very tasty and nicely cooked. Liz enjoys their beef Lo Mein and the Shrimp with Cashews.
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Ford's No. 2 Steps Into the Limelight
Mark Fields, Ford Motor Co. F 0.42 % 's chief operating officer, has a clear path to becoming the auto maker's next chief executive, and there are signs the company is preparing him for a more public role.
Standing on a stage before dawn in Detroit on Friday, Mr. Fields told his audience that he was excited and honored to be chairman of the United Way's fundraising drive in southeastern Michigan. Last year that post was held by Chrysler Group LLC CEO Sergio Marchionne. When Ford was approached about offering a top executive to run the campaign, Mr. Fields was the man.
Though Alan Mulally has said he is committed to staying on as Ford's CEO through 2014, news reports have suggested that he may be courted by software giant Microsoft Corp. MSFT 4.21 % , which is seeking a new leader to reinvigorate it. That could put the 52-year-old Mr. Fields in Ford's top job sooner than anticipated.
The executive, who became Ford's No. 2 in December, has spent nearly a year on a global tour of the company's operations, visiting China, South America and Europe to check on the progress of plant construction and product rollouts. "It is incredibly energizing to go around the world and see this community of Ford folks," Mr. Fields told reporters Friday.
At Friday's kickoff event for the United Way campaign, Mr. Fields said Microsoft's reported interest in Mr. Mulally wasn't a distraction, and that he wasn't planning on taking the helm at Ford soon.
"I am absolutely focused on my chief operating job, running the day-to-day operations, working with the team to drive operational excellence. That is my sole focus," he said.
Until Friday, Ford largely had kept Mr. Fields away from public events and hadn't made him available for interviews. It's a smart strategy for a CEO-in- waiting, said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a senior associate dean at Yale School of Management.
"When they are not totally shielded, problems happen," Mr. Sonnenfeld said, adding that acting like a CEO before you gain the title "always leads to collegial envy and public confusion" over who is in charge.
In the past year, Mr. Fields has made his influence felt at Ford mostly by running the company's business-plan review meetings, held every Thursday.
These meetings are "core to changing the culture at Ford," Mr. Fields said. In an interview early this year at the Detroit auto show, he said he hoped the meetings, a tradition Mr. Mulally brought from Boeing Co. BA -0.15 % when he joined Ford in 2006, would become a permanent fixture.
During the sessions, which have been cited for opening up the flow of information, bosses from various areas of Ford give status updates, assigning their projects a color: green for go; yellow for concerns and red for stop. The idea wasn't initially a hit, because Ford executives didn't want to admit problems. Mr. Fields is credited with being the first to buy into it.
Gary Johnson, who runs Ford's Asia-Pacific manufacturing, said Mr. Fields, then head of North American operations, sent ripples through the company in an early meeting when he disclosed that the launch of the Ford Edge SUV was off-track. "Edge is red," Mr. Johnson said in an interview in China in April, recalling the meeting. "I'll never forget it. In the old days, if you said that, you were a dead man walking."
Mr. Mulally, however, rewarded Mr. Fields with applause and other company executives quickly fell in line.
The New Jersey native, with a Harvard M.B.A and an intense focus on operations and performance metrics, was a fast riser.
In 2000, Ford put him in charge of Japanese auto maker Mazda Motor Corp. 7261 0.33 % , in which it then owned a controlling stake.
Mazda raced ahead during his tenure, and he was tapped to run the division that included Jaguar and Land Rover, then later Ford's European operations, before he was brought back to North America in 2005 by then-CEO William Ford Jr. His mission was clear: to make North American operations profitable.
He had a brusque, straightforward style. In a 2006 interview, he talked about trying to use fear to change an intransigent culture. But he has said in later years that he has had to soften his approach to be more collaborative.
His 2005 restructuring plan, "The Way Forward," didn't go far enough, so he was forced to deepen the cuts he envisioned. Early in his tenure as North America chief, he was criticized for using Ford's private jet to commute from Detroit to his home in Delray Beach, Fla., while pushing through painful plant closings and mass-firings of salaried workers.
In 2006, Mr. Ford handed the CEO job to Mr. Mulally and became executive chairman. Few expected Mr. Fields to survive. But Mr. Mulally left Mr. Fields in charge of North America operations, which have roared back to profitability, lending Mr. Fields new credibility as he followed through on his restructuring efforts behind the scenes.
Ford's North American business now regularly produces record profit.
In 2008, Ford posted a companywide loss of $14.6 billion, most of it in North America. The following year, by contrast, the company had a $2.7 billion profit, led by North America. Ford now is straining to meet demand for its vehicles, and has hired nearly 10,000 new workers in the past few years.
Like Mr. Mulally, Mr. Fields is big on using metrics. And while he doesn't have an engineering background, he likes to get involved in product development.
For the coming 2015 Mustang, which will shed the current model's retro styling in a bid to boost its global appeal, Mr. Fields helped get designers more leeway to improve the proportions of the vehicle by widening and lowering it, even though it required major engineering changes, according to a person involved in the conversation.
Mr. Fields is more likely than Mr. Mulally to kid around and "bust your chops," as one executive put it. In an interview last spring, he joked that he had to remember not to drink too much liquid before running the weekly business meeting because he could no longer excuse himself.
At a recent dinner, Mr. Fields went around the room of more than a dozen people, recalling when he had met each person, surprising and impressing the group, said one person there.
When he ran North American operations, Mr. Fields, who also became responsible for Ford's South American operations, would appear in weekly video messages that were sent to workers to update them on Ford's business and the industry.
While Mr. Fields now runs all Ford's daily operations, the company's chief financial officer, chief legal counsel and human-resources chief report to Mr. Mulally. Mr. Fields said that Mr. Mulally still attends the company's weekly business meetings "pretty regularly."
Mr. Sonnenfeld, the Yale senior associate dean, who knows Mr. Fields well, thinks he is content to be operating chief until his time comes. "There's no evidence that Mark is frustrated,'' he said. That's partly because "he is doing very well,'' especially among Ford dealers, Mr. Sonnenfeld added. "He is doing a lot of the heavy lifting on the car designs and refinement. He's the car guy.''
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Six years ago, Polly Birdswell—drinking and deeply unhappy—made a decision that changed her life forever. Believing she could spare her young daughter a legacy of self-destruction, she left her husband and child and moved north to a coastal town in Maine. There, close to Bride Island, the beloved family retreat she considers her true home, she set about getting sober and remaking her life.
Now Polly desperately wants seven-year-old Monroe back and is determined to prove—to herself especially—she's a stable and loving mother. At the same time, a sudden decision to sell Bride Island unleashes a wave of family greed that endangers the island's future. As Polly and her siblings try to claim ownership of what they love, they discover some things can never truly be owned, and Polly must again ask herself what she's willing to relinquish. Beautifully written and emotionally complex, Bride Island is a poignant debut novel about love, motherhood, and the haunting and sometimes conflicting pulls of family and the places that shape us.
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Norfolk Island is a majestic jewel in the Pacific Ocean, close enough to the Australian coast to be within easy reach, far enough away to be remote. It is rich in tradition and has a wonderful sense of family and community. Just eight kilometres long and five kilometres wide, Norfolk depends on tourism for 90 percent of its economy. So besotted was Getaway's adventurer Sorrel Wilby with the island on her first visit for the program in 2000, she and her family are now cemented in as residents and loving it.
Captain Cook discovered the island in 1774 and the first Europeans arrived in 1788. It was later handed over to the descendents of the HMS Bounty mutineers, who'd outgrown the tiny nearby Pitcairn Island. It was known as hell in the Pacific in the 18th and 19th centuries, but that is all in the history books. Around a third of its residents are descendents of the Bounty settlers, with surnames of Christian, Quintal, Adams and Young quite common.
Norfolk's strict immigration laws only allow descendents of the original settlers or those who purchase an existing business to take up residence in their paradise. It is an independent territory of Australia, with its own administration, postage stamps (which are highly coveted by philatelists) and immigration policies. Their currency is the Australian dollar.
Visitors are treated to huge doses of fresh air, a beautiful rural landscape, deep blue water, rolling green hills, Norfolk pines and very interesting people. They have their own language, which is a kind of pigeon English derived from old Scottish and English words, with a good sprinkling of Polynesian.
One of Sorrel's favourite places is Simon's Water, a privately-owned waterfront reserve where trespassers are welcome! Sorrel has a favourite tree there, amongst the thousands of pines, and she loves to sit underneath it, looking out to sea and watching the sea birds come in to nest.
About one third of Norfolk is covered with national park or recreation reserves, which give lots of chances for a leisurely walk or hike. Locals are very proud and protective of their many unique plant species. From Mount Pitt and Mount Bates you can enjoy views of the entire island and the two-kilometre walk to the Captain Cook monument also gives splendid views across the ocean.
Advance Fishing and Boat Tour Company has been running for 22 years. Darren Bates says that in all that time they have never come in without a catch. They take trips around the island, but mostly concentrate on fishing on the reefs. Trips go out early and come in at 11am and many people take their catch to their accommodation to cook … after Darren has done all the hard work of cleaning and gutting!
Bounty Divers run diving and snorkelling trips. Jack Marges and Karlene Christian, a seventh-generation islander, are very experienced, not only in the waters directly around Norfolk, but Nepean and Philip islands as well. They are of volcanic origin and the underwater terrain is dominated by swim-throughs, caves, arches and walls. They are covered with lots of marine life in which hard corals predominate. The marine environment is one of the last remaining pristine and unspoiled ecosystems in the world, with little pollution. There are no running rivers to dump into the ocean and no commercial exploitation of marine resources.
When you're hungry, Garrison Restaurant is one of the best places to go. It was the island's first licensed restaurant. They serve local seafood and produce, along with dishes with Asian, Mediterranean and European influences.
A wonderful place to meet locals and enjoy a coffee is the Golden Orb Bookshop Café. There are comfortable couches for about 40, pictures and plenty of books. It's at the end of the main street so has a nice tucked-away feel. Lunches and snacks are served each day and their coffee is delicious.


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CVS Caremark (NYSE:CVS) continues to trade near all-time highs as structural tailwinds for the industry outweigh short-term concerns regarding competition, weather and a mild flu season.
While growth is impressive for a company the size of CVS and the valuation is reasonable, I remain a bit cautious at current levels. Strong momentum in recent years combined with a valuation multiple expansion and pressure on the healthcare industry to contain costs, are my main reasons to be a bit reserved.
First Quarter Takeaway
CVS reported first quarter revenues of $32.7 billion which represents a 6.3% increase over last year.
Reported earnings came in at $1.13 billion, up from $954 million reported last year. Diluted earnings were up by eighteen cents to $0.95 after the company repurchased roughly 4% of its shares outstanding over the past year.
Sales Growth Driven By Healthcare Demand, Pricing And Acquisitions
Pharmacy service revenues rose by 10.3% to $20.2 billion driven by growth of the healthcare sector, strong pricing and the acquisition of Coram. Network claims rose by 0.4% to 208.0 million. Operating profits from PBM rose by 28.5% to $640 million as a result of topline growth as well as margin expansion.
The retail business was the biggest contributor to earnings with operating earnings increasing by 14.2% to $1.75 billion. Revenues for the business were up by 2.7% to $16.5 billion.
While the PBM business continued to move along just fine after posting 10.3% revenue growth which is an impressive result, the total earnings picture was a bit soft. The company suffered from the harsh weather as well as a soft flu season.
Consequently, front comparable store sales were down by 3.8% compared to last year, partially the result of the shift of the Easter holiday. While comparable sales are expected to improve going forward, the announcement to stop selling tobacco will have a drawback on the business.
Cash Flow Machine
The growth in topline revenues and margin expansion bodes well for CVS's cash flows. While reported earnings at $1.13 billion were solid, the company announced a 35.3% increase in its free cash flows which came in at $1.79 billion. Sale and lease back constructions boost cash flows in the short term.
For the entire year of 2014, the company foresees free cash flows of $5.5 to $5.8 billion, the equivalent of roughly 115% of expected GAAP earnings.
Impact Of ¨Obamacare¨
CVS notes that some 8 million individuals have enrolled in the so-called public exchanges despite all the technical difficulties. 3 million consumers have gained coverage from the Medicaid expansion with the company being well-positioned to benefit from the increase in the potential market.
Cardinal Health Venture
CVS updated the market as well regarding the venture with Cardinal Health. Both companies have formed a ten-year agreement thereby forming the largest generic sourcing business in the US. The partnership is expected to be operational as of July of this year.
Looking Into 2014
CVS confirmed its full year guidance for GAAP earnings of $4.09 to $4.23 per share. Adjusted earnings which are a non-GAAP earnings metric are seen twenty-five cents higher. The difference between both earnings metrics is largely explained by expected amortization charges.
For the current second quarter, GAAP earnings are expected to come in between $1.01 and $1.04 per share.
These earnings projections are based on anticipated revenue growth of 5.25 to 6.5% driven by the PBM business which is expected to show revenue growth between 8.75 and 10.0%.
During the first quarter, CVS has repurchased about 11 million shares at a total cost of $801 million. For the full year, it anticipates $4 billion in share repurchases to be financed by the expected $5.5 to $5.8 billion in anticipated free cash flows for this year.
Trading at $74 per share equity in the business is valued at around $88 billion. Note that this excludes the $10.6 billion net debt position held by the company. Given the company's outlook, revenues of $135 billion might be attainable this year as GAAP earnings are expected to approach $5 billion.
Based on this outlook, equity in the business is valued at roughly 0.65 times annual revenues and 17-18 times annual earnings.
The quarterly dividend of $0.275 per share provides investors with a dividend yield of 1.5%. Cash returned through repurchases are expected to reach 4.5% per annum this year.
Implications For Investors
CVS continues to grow in an industry which is seeing structural tailwinds by the growth for healthcare, a trend which is accelerated by the Affordable Care Act.
The retail business of CVS which reports gross margins of 31.5% saw struggles during the quarter on the back of a mild flu season, the harsh weather and the timing of the Easter holiday. Other headwinds include aggressive competition from the likes of Walgreen (WAG) and Rite Aid (NYSE:RAD) and the potential impact of exiting the tobacco sales, a move applauded by President Obama.
The PBM business continues to grow at a much quicker pace and witnessed modest margin expansion as well. Despite a 45 basis point improvement in gross margins, those margins came in at just 4.6% of sales. The growing importance of generic drugs continue to be a driver behind margin expansion of the business.
Shares in CVS have traded in a $20-$40 trading range for most of the past decade. Following the strong momentum created by the Affordable Care Act, shares broke through the $40 mark at the start of 2012 after which strong momentum pushed up shares to current levels at $74 per share.
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