bank statements

Financial transaction summaries

Bank statements are periodic documents from a financial institution summarizing account activity—deposits, withdrawals, fees, and running balances.

They arrive monthly for most accounts, serving as official records for budgeting, tax preparation, and proof of transactions: The landlord asked for three months of bank statements.

Now typically accessed online rather than mailed.

Opposites
documentation formality

bank statementsmental accounting

Categorizing money by source

receipts · handshake deals · invoices

temporal orientation

bank statementsfinancial projections

Predicted future monetary performance

budget forecasts · financial forecasts · budgets

financial transparency

bank statementsunreported income

Money not disclosed officially

black money · cooked books

Family

bank, state, statement, stated, banker, banking, banks, stating, banked

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G