If you handle Kuwait clients with cross-border banking, Burgan is in your stack. Bulk-convert the PDFs to clean CSVs that drop into QuickBooks, Zoho Books, or Xero — KWD precision and SWIFT BICs intact.
Convert Burgan statementsBurgan Bank serves clients with regional exposure — subsidiaries in Iraq, Tunisia, Turkey. Its statements carry international wires with correspondent BICs, and occasionally KWD + USD rows on the same account. Naive OCR tools collapse the BIC into the balance column or drop the second currency. Kashfbank preserves both.
The bilingual A4 PDF is text-layer. KWD is to 3 decimals. The Description column keeps the original Arabic narration, the SWIFT BIC, and any beneficiary IBAN for outbound wires.
Standard CSV columns — Date, Description, Debit, Credit, Balance, Category — import directly into QuickBooks Online, Zoho Books, and Xero. The bilingual narration is preserved, so KNet merchant strings and Arabic transfer labels survive into your chart-of-accounts mapping.
Bulk upload lets you process a full year for a Burgan client in a single session. Each file is labeled by source filename for clean audit trail back to the PDF.
Every line, every fil, every original label. SWIFT BICs preserved. Multi-currency rows tagged.
Bilingual Arabic-English A4 PDF. Columns: date, narration, debit, credit, balance (KWD to 3 decimals). Account header includes full customer name, account number, IBAN, currency, and statement period. Regional wire transfers include correspondent bank SWIFT codes in narration.
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| تحويل خارجي | Outward international transfer |
| حوالة واردة | Inward remittance |
| كي نت | KNet POS payment |
| شيك | Cheque clearing |
| راتب | Salary deposit |
Rules in Kuwait differ — see our country guide
Collect the client's Burgan PDFs
Pull statements from Burgan Mobile or the client-provided exports. Burgan supports multi-month PDF generation, so a full year is usually 1–4 files.
Bulk upload to Kashfbank
Drop multiple PDFs in one session. Each is converted independently and tagged with its source filename for reconciliation audit.
Reconcile against the client's books
Sum credits per category for revenue, debits per category for expense. 3-decimal KWD totals reconcile to the fil against the trial balance.
Export to QuickBooks, Zoho Books, or Xero
Standard CSV columns import directly. The category tags map cleanly to your COA — re-categorisation in the accounting tool takes minutes.
Common challenges
Does Kashfbank preserve correspondent BIC codes on Burgan wires?
Yes. Burgan's PDF sometimes wraps the BIC onto the next visual line. Kashfbank handles the wrap and keeps the BIC inside the Description column where it belongs.
Can I bulk-convert multiple Burgan clients in one session?
Yes. Each PDF is processed independently and tagged with its source filename. A session of 10–20 statements across different clients is normal.
What about KWD + USD rows on the same statement?
Multi-currency rows are tagged with the original currency in the Currency column. Your CSV stays accurate for trial balance match without manual rate conversion.
Will the Arabic narration survive into the CSV?
Yes. The Description column keeps the original Arabic alongside any English label, so KNet merchant strings, "تحويل خارجي", and "حوالة واردة" carry through to your accounting tool.
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Regulator: Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK)
Fiscal year: Apr 1 – Mar 31 (government); Jan–Dec (private sector)
Full country guide →Statement language: Arabic / English