Explain some reasons for preparing Bank Reconciliation statement

Tabulate below are some of the reasons to prepare bank reconciliation statement:

The reasons for us to prepare Bank Reconciliation statement are as follows: To detect items not entered and errors in the cash book To ensure that the cash book entries are complete. Items missing from the cash book will not have been recorded in other ledger accounts and the business records will be unreliable To discover bank errors ( bank personnel  too make mistake!!) To discover dishonored cheques To monitor “stale” cheques ( those cheques which have not been banked by the payee within the  local banking law of six (6) months   and finally to check on fraud and embezzlement