How do I reconcile bank statements?

[Guest]

I need to pull a few cash receipt amounts out of an enormous list that will
be equal to a depost amount on a bank statement.

 

[sonar]

Are you doing your books in Excel? Why not just use Quickbooks

 

[Myrna Larson]

This is an enormously complicated task, and probably can't be done efficiently
in Excel, if at all. The only solution that might work is Solver, where you
put a 0 in the column next to the receipt amounts, then tell Solver to change
the 0's to 1's until the SUMIF for the rows with a 1 is equal to the deposit
amount. But you say an "enormous list", and I expect Solver will tell you that
it can't find a solution.

If you need to know this, you really should mark each receipt with the deposit
date from the outset.