# Accounts

## Validate (reconcile)

The validation process should occur when you receive your bank statement. Depending if you have manually inserted transactions, or imported it from a file coming from your bank, you will validate the paper is in phase with what you got into HomeBank.

### How to reconcile

This is done in the account window.

For the moment HomeBank is very simple in this usage
According that a such process was done in the past, your HomeBank bank balance and the starting balance of the statement should be equal at start.
Then you will validate each transaction one at a time
At the end your HomeBank bank balance and the final balance of the statement should be equal.