A reconciliation exception is any transaction or entry that could not be matched or that requires additional review before a reconciliation can be completed.
A reconciliation exception is a record that did not receive a confirmed match during the reconciliation process — either because no corresponding entry was found, or because candidate matches existed but differences in amount, date, reference, or description prevented a confident match. Exceptions are the central focus of reconciliation review: they must be investigated, explained, documented, and resolved before reconciliation is complete.
Most reconciliations produce at least some exceptions. The quality of a reconciliation depends not just on the volume matched automatically, but on how thoroughly exceptions are investigated and documented. An unexplained exception may hide a timing gap, an error, a possible duplicate payment, or a missing entry.
After matching 2,400 transactions, a reconciliation surfaces 37 exceptions. Of these, 20 are timing differences — entries that arrived after the cut-off date. 12 show small amount differences. 5 have no candidate match at all. Each requires a structured review and decision.
Certanexa surfaces reconciliation exceptions with structured context — exception type, nearest candidate, difference amount, reason — and uses PowerBot to help explain why entries didn't match and what the likely investigation steps are.
Safe boundary: Exceptions surfaced by Certanexa are candidates for review, not confirmed errors. Finance teams make all final decisions about exception resolution.
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