From general ledger tie-outs to complete capitalization table cleanup projects, reconciliation services help to keep your records clean, documented, and audit-ready.
Complete and accurate equity records are the foundation of an accurate close, a credible audit, and confident financial reporting. When your equity administration platform, board minutes, general ledger, payroll system, and cap table all agree, your team moves faster and data is ready for timely critical decision making.
Most reconciliation problems aren’t caused by a lack of knowledge. They’re caused by a lack of time, inconsistent processes, or transitions, a system conversion, a corporate event, or simply months (or years) of activity that never got fully reconciled. Whatever brought you here, BPM can help you get your equity records clean and keep them that way.
Reconciliation gaps tend to stem from a short list of root causes: processes that were informal to begin with, post-close transactions that weren’t entered timely or tracked, prior-period differences left open, or a transition between platforms that left records in two states. When we come in to clean up a backlog or strengthen an ongoing process, our starting point is always understanding what went wrong, not just correcting the numbers.
BPM’s Certified Equity Professionals (CEPs) and stock plan administrators work across your equity administration platform, general ledger, payroll, and cap table to identify discrepancies, close gaps, and document the process in a way your auditors can follow.
Whether you need a one-time reconciliation project or ongoing support through each close cycle, we meet you where your program is. The following areas represent the core of our equity reconciliation work.
We reconcile equity activity period-over-period: grants, exercises, releases, forfeitures, expirations, and repurchases, confirming that your roll forward balances are complete, accurate, and traceable back to source transactions. Beginning balance continuity is verified at the start of each period, and any differences from prior periods are identified and explained before they compound.
We reconcile your stock-based compensation expense, additional paid-in capital and equity balances between your equity administration system, exercise history and general ledger, confirming agreement across and documenting any reconciling items with clear explanations. This cross-system tie-out is one of the most common points of audit focus and one of the most common sources of persistent discrepancies.
Stock splits, tender offers, equity plan mergers, system migrations, and other corporate events introduce complexity that standard processes aren't built to absorb. We provide reconciliation support through these events, preserving pre- and post-event records, documenting treatment assumptions, and confirming that system outputs reconcile to the final reported figures.
For companies preparing for an IPO, an M&A transaction, or a new round of funding, a clean, verified cap table is a prerequisite. Discrepancies that surface late can slow deals, raise questions, and create corrections under pressure. BPM reviews common stock, preferred stock, options, RSUs, warrants, and convertible instruments, tracing each position back to its source documentation and resolving discrepancies before the cap table is distributed to other parties.
When reconciliation is built into your close process consistently, errors get caught early rather than compounding across periods. BPM can work with you to build period locking protocols, documentation standards, and review procedures that make your equity records audit-ready throughout the year, not just when the auditors arrive.
Persistent reconciliation discrepancies are a solvable problem. BPM’s professionals bring both the equity administration knowledge and the accounting rigor to resolve them accurately and document them completely.
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