Matching 2 columns - quick easy way?

kryptek49

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Hi, I work at an accountants and have been tasked with reconciling a clients bank account. They use accounting software and have manually entered around 1400 bank transactions. The bank is now out by about £200k, and I need to find out where they have gone wrong. It's not 1 big transaction out, but 100's of transactions that don't add up.

I have the clients list of bank payments (in and out) in one column (say A), and a separate column (B) with the actual bank figures. What I want to do is find a way to match column A to column B without having to manually tick the 2. There are several payments in both columns that have the same value, for example £100 will be repeated multiple times in both columns, therefore looking at items that aren't duplicates doesn't really help.

Is there a way, either VBA or formula's that I can work through this data quickly? I'm dreading having to go through it manually and thought someone here must know!

Thank you.
 

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Here is a quick way to do it with formulas, you might find it easier to check if you separate the client list from the actual and have the formula to check column A in column B.
Additionally, changing "OK" to "" would leave the 'good' transactions with a blank cell, again, making it easier when you have to look down the list to check the remaining data.

Sample Data.xlsx
ABCD
1List 1List 2List 1 checkList 2 check
2109OKOK
354OKOK
451ErrorOK
5410OKOK
621OKOK
7910OKOK
829OKOK
992OKOK
1046ErrorError
1185OKOK
1229ErrorOK
1378OKOK
1438ErrorError
1518OKError
1659ErrorError
1717OKOK
1872OKOK
1997OKOK
20109OKError
Sheet5
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
C2:C20C2=IF(COUNTIF(A$2:A2,A2)<=COUNTIF(B:B,A2),"OK","Error")
D2:D20D2=IF(COUNTIF(B$2:B2,B2)<=COUNTIF(A:A,B2),"OK","Error")
 
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