What is a Bank Statement?
Have you ever wondered what is actually a Bank Statement and why it is needed. What is the information that is available in a bank statement?
Bank statement or account statement is a summary of financial transactions which have occurred over a given period on a bank account held by a person or business with a financial institution.
Bank statements have historically been and continue to be typically printed on one or several pieces of paper
They are either mailed directly to the account holder, or kept at the financial institution's local branch for pick-up.
In recent years there has been a shift towards paperless, electronic statements
Most financial institutions now offer direct download of bank statement into account holders accounting software.
Key Attributes of Bank Statement:
- Summary of financial transactions
- For a given period
- For a particular bank account
- Held by a person or business
- With a bank or financial institution
- Could be in paper or electronic format
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