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Convert Doha Bank Statements for Accountants

Doha Bank's international remittance rows wrap and break in most tools. Convert each statement to a clean sheet where the beneficiary, IBAN, and amount stay on one row.

Convert a Doha Bank statement

Why accountants convert Doha Bank statements

Doha Bank engagements involve bilingual, QAR-denominated statements heavy with international remittances. Two formatting traits cause most re-keying errors: long beneficiary-name and IBAN strings that wrap across two lines, and a summary box at the statement top that top-to-bottom extractors mistake for transaction rows.

Kashfbank handles both. It keeps each remittance's beneficiary and IBAN attached to its QAR amount on a single row, and treats the top summary box as a control figure, not a transaction — so your posted totals are clean.

How Doha Bank statements map to your workpapers

Inward and outward remittances must be categorised distinctly — حوالة واردة versus تحويل خارجي — so a transfer is never posted as revenue or expense. The QAR balance lets you detect a gap that signals a missing page. Salary credits reconcile against payroll; card and bill debits map to the chart of accounts.

Retail and corporate layouts differ — corporate statements include sub-facility lines. Kashfbank keeps each row distinct so you can group sub-facilities during consolidation without losing the line-level detail an auditor needs.

What to extract for reconciliation

Pull every debit and credit with the QAR amount, the beneficiary detail on remittance lines, and the running balance for completeness testing.

All debits and credits with exact QAR amounts for trial-balance tie-out
Inward vs. outward remittances categorised distinctly — not revenue or expense
Beneficiary name and IBAN kept on one row for related-party disclosure
Running balance to detect missing pages; summary box excluded from the count
Sub-facility lines kept distinct on corporate statements for consolidation

Doha Bank statement format

Clear bilingual Arabic-English PDF. Columns: date, description, debit, credit, QAR balance. Summary box at statement top: period, opening balance, total movements, closing balance. Retail and corporate layouts differ — corporate statements include sub-facility lines.

Label	Meaning
تحويل خارجي	Outward international remittance
حوالة واردة	Inward remittance
راتب	Salary (WPS)
ATM سحب	ATM withdrawal
دفع بطاقة	Card payment

Qatar specifics for this use case

Rules in Qatar differ — see our country guide

How to do it — step by step

Collect the client's Doha Bank PDFs

Gather the full-period statements from the client's Doha Bank Mobile export or branch-issued PDFs. For multi-country clients, keep each country's statement separate.

Bulk upload to Kashfbank

Upload the period's PDFs. Each converts independently, labelled with its source filename so you can trace which month and account a transaction came from.

Reconcile and tie out

Apply your chart of accounts to the Category column. Keep inward and outward remittances as transfers. Check the running balance for gaps before relying on the data.

Export per client

Download each as a separate CSV for QuickBooks, Xero, or Zoho Books. Keep the original Doha Bank PDF as audit evidence.

Common challenges

•GCC statements in Arabic with Hijri dates requiring dual-date output (Hijri + Gregorian)
•Scanned statements with low OCR quality — common in older Egyptian and Lebanese bank PDFs
•Multi-page statements where the bank splits across quarterly or monthly PDFs requiring merge
•Statements with running balance gaps that signal missing pages (critical for completeness in audit)

Frequently asked questions

Doha Bank's international transfer lines wrap badly in other tools. Does Kashfbank fix that?

Yes. International rows carry long beneficiary-name and IBAN strings that wrap across two lines and displace the amount in naive extractors. Kashfbank keeps the full string and its QAR amount on the same row.

Will the summary box at the top of a Doha Bank statement inflate my posted figures?

No. Kashfbank recognizes the top summary box — period, opening balance, total movements, closing balance — as a control figure and excludes it from the transaction count, so your posted totals stay accurate.

My client has Doha Bank accounts in several countries. How do I keep them separate?

Convert each country's statement independently. Kashfbank treats each file as its own document and labels it with the source filename, so foreign-account transactions never pool into the wrong ledger.

How do I detect a missing statement page during audit?

Kashfbank preserves the running QAR balance. A break in the balance sequence between two rows signals a missing page, which you can flag for completeness before relying on the data.

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