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Reconcile monthly business transactions
Claude Code pulled a month of transactions over MCP and matched bank rows to receipts, proposing categories; it reconciled 200 rows but miscategorized 11, caught in a manual audit.
- What They Did
- Rather than pasting a CSV into chat, the author had Claude Code build a re-runnable pipeline. It pulled the month's transactions from the accounting platform over MCP, matched bank rows to receipts by amount and date, drafted a category with a reason for each row, and flagged rows it was unsure about. The author reviewed the flagged rows and sampled the rest.
- How It Went
- It reconciled 200 transactions and miscategorized 11 (94.5%). The errors were judgment calls: 5 on business intent, 4 on local tax rules, 2 on edge cases. Seven of the 11 were already in its flagged set of 18.
- Worth Knowing
- Telling the agent never to guess silently turned a 200-row audit into an 18-row review plus a sample. Even so, four errors surfaced only in the spot-check.
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Reconcile my business transactions for [month] using [bank export/accounting tool] and the receipts in [folder]. Match each bank row to a receipt, propose a category from [my chart of accounts], and mark low-confidence matches separately. Don't post or change anything in my books. You're done when I have a table of matches and a list of items needing my review, so I can spot-check the categories.
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