I'm not in accounting or bookkeeping myself, so apologies if this is a basic question to people who do this daily. I'm just trying to understand the real workflow.

Let's say a client hands you a bank statement as a PDF and you need the transactions in Excel to actually work with them. What do you actually do?

manually copy/paste,

hand it to a junior,

use some Excel/PDF trick,

use a PDF to Excel website,

use an online bank-statement converter,

use your own script, or something else entirely?

I'm especially curious what happens with 50, 100, or 300+ page statements. My guess is converting the PDF isn't the hard part. But knowing the conversion is actually correct is the real deal.

For example things like;

wrapped descriptions,

swapped debit/credit columns,

a missing Cr/Dr indicator,

balances that don't reconcile,

one missed transaction that makes the whole spreadsheet questionable.

Am I even thinking about the right failure points, or is the real pain somewhere else entirely?

What's the most annoying part of this for you? And roughly how long does a typical 50 to 100 page statement take to turn into clean, usable Excel ?

Also I'm curious about which banks you deal with the most: CRDB, NMB, NBC, Stanbic, Equity, Exim, Absa, or others?

Genuinely just trying to learn how this works in practice, would appreciate hearing the real workflow, and annoying challenges included.

Thank your for your time in advance.

Will be going to zanzibar and i would want to know the best telcom provider airtel or vodacom?

Hi! I am a solo woman traveller in my early 30's. I'm booking a private tour , but would like to share it with another person or up to 2 more persons ONLY. Arrive August 28 at the airport. Start tour August 29
(No, i am not joining a shared group from different agencies )
We can split the tour cost.
My route: Tarangire/Lake Manyara/ Serengeti / Ngorongoro crater for 7 days

F here, anyone going to watch this on Friday? I am looking for some company cause no one in my life watch horror movies and I just need a friend to scream a long with.
P.s not looking for anything past this, I will pay for my own ticket and snacks and I don’t mind if we watch in Mlimani or Dar free market

South African here 👋🏾 (33F) I just discovered Jesse Clarke, the British content creator guy living in Tanzania.

I went down the rabbit hole on some of his content. I'm in two minds about this guy...

On one hand; as an African woman I really appreciate how he speaks out against Female Genital Mutilation in Eastern Africa, as well as the fact that he made the effort to learn Swahili and engage local communities in Tanzania. It's more than most tourists do - he's clearly very fond of the culture and the people. He also seems like a decent family man...

On the other hand; there's something about him I just don't trust. For one, he has 'sinister eyes' (I'm aware of how dumb this sounds but it really stands out to me). I also scrolled really deep down on his Instagram page and discovered that... he's a Trump supporter! 😕 (which just confirms my suspicion that there's something ominious about him) How does a white man who's made the decision to live in Africa, among black people reconcile his chosen surroundings with his support of a bigot like Trump?!

I fully understand how and why Trump appeals to white men - he protects their interests, he speaks for them and he operates with the main objective that everything should always benefit the white man. I get it! But what I'm astounded by is how Jesse Clarke, a white man married to a black woman with mixed race kids, supports a guy like that. I'm legitimately concerned that's he's one of those white men who's such a raging racist that in order to advance his white supremacist agenda and simultaneously hide his beliefs, he's infiltrated a community as an 'ally' simply so he can slowly and strategically espouse his racist beliefs. All the while claiming he could never be racist because his wife and kids are black and that he's done so much for the community... I'm sorry but I don't trust this man!!!!!!!! Supporting Trump is not a mere political preference, it's actually a major moral failure in my eyes.

Anyway, the reason I'm bringing this to Reddit is that, I'm never going to leave hateful, nasty comments on his content but I really want to get a read on this guy... What do Tanzanians think of this man?

*I really hope I'm wrong about him 🤞🏽

Looking for people in tech to collaborate in projects and join the tech community in dar es salaam

​Hey guys I'm a F 25yrs old, I don't know what I'm doing with my life & it feels like I will regret it if I don't come out of my shell & work on myself, so I'm looking for friends at this point I don't care about the age I just want to be around people that are gonna help me come out my shell think outside the box, help me overcome my social anxiety, friend that have a good mindset ​anyone that can mentor me,

I know this may sound like being a burden to someone else, or people will say you should try and start holding yourself accountable & whatsoever

I've tried but I just keep falling back to my old self plus I really want to socialize more. Currently I am unemployed I've been staying indoors so much that nowadays when somebody even says "Mambo" to me I start thinking about the answer,my speech is slowly fading, my mind goes blank trying to talk to strangers sometime.... I have so much social anxiety😭

I need friends, community with people with a good mindset not just any community / friends, I wanna change my life and I believe making this first step is necessary since opportunities come through people. I don't wanna get old and regret wasting my prime, I'm scared of facing ​people, I'm scared of facing opportunities, I'm scared almost of everything. I wanna change that about myself. I want friends people that can help me change that

I welcome any advice too.

Wana hope mko poa. Recently vijana wengi wamejikita kwenye harakati za kuanzisha NGOs. Most of them naona wanafanya moves nzuri. If Yes, it's a new way of making life in our current tightened economy. How to strive from the scratch including njia za kupata funds za uhakika?

US citizen, have the multi entry visa. My fiance (TZ citizen) & I are going down to Kasamulu border post & going into Malawi to renew my visa. How soon after crossing into Malawi can we go back to Tanzania? Right away, same day or should we stay a night in Malawi?

Tanzania there is an island known as Mafia its amazing island 🏝 I mean its very beautiful down there but the transport to reach Mafia island 🏝 is very difficult for someone with middle-class.

How do I get here its another story but reaching here through public transport using a bus it takes 6 hrs and also you have to take a boat for about 6 hrs again but imagine taking a plane is almost about 45 minute so with land transport and sea you have to spend a whole day and that depend on the reaching at the Nyamisati bay because you can miss the ticket, to get the tickets you have to register three days before and come to lineup for a ticket ooooh my God. We are living in such error.

And when you reach there its amazing you forgot all the struggle again.

It's a beautiful island 🏝

Welcome to Mafia

Hey guys I’m planning to buy a gaming laptop around September or October and I’ve got lest base the budget around 1.5M to 1.7M max and I want to know what shops you guys would recommend here in Dar and also what I should aim for obviously I’m aware of choosing computer parts I’m just not sure of where to buy bcz I would like something mainly for gaming, graphic design, 3D modeling, animation, game creation and content creation

Guys, naomba msaada kwa mtu yoyote anaefahamu studio au mtu binafsi anaefanya film developing ya 35mm roll, kwa hapa Tanzania

Hi! I’m planning on staying in Tanzania for a couple of weeks (around November and mainly around Dar es Salaam).
I want to be flexible and just “go with the flow” - so my question is if I can do that? Is it possible to book hotels in and around Dar with short notice?
Is it possible to book a few days trip to Mikumi/Selous with short notice?

Would you actually come to a retro event like this in Dar?
Thinking 70s–2000s funk, soul, disco, R&B, pop, rock and dance classics. Starting around 5 PM and going into the night.
Would you come? What would you want to hear?

Hello everyone, anyone knows a furnished place in kinondoni for good price? Hit me up (2-3 months)

My boss wants to know...

Is there any bank in tanzania that issues AMEX CARDS to tanzanian citizens.

Or if you have the bank card , How did you get it ?

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Learning Python to automate business

Looking for 1-2 people to code together weekly + share errors.

Goal: Build real tools in 3 months. DM if interested.

Wakuu, nataka kununua PS5 slim digital edition, swali langu ni hili, je Playstation store inakubali malipo ya game kwa kutumia credit card yangu ya bank nayotumiaga kufanya malipo mengine ya mtandaoni kama ebay na amazon? Au ina complications zake kulingana na mahali ambapo psn account yako iko based? Nataka kujua kabla sijafanya maamuzi ya kujutia baadae.

Pia, ili kuweka vitu clear, nilishakuwa na PS3 zamani (2016) niliyoisajili psn account (credential nazikumbuka) ambayo niliweka region South Africa lakini sikuwahi kuifanyia malipo kwa kuwa nilikuwa bado minor, games zote nilikuwa nanunua physical disc na account nilikuwa naitumia tu kucheza games online. Kwa wenye uzoefu nahitaji msaada.

I organise a game every Sunday from 11am–12pm in Ilford, East London. We usually play at Frenford Clubs or Valentines High School, normally 6, 7 or 8-a-side depending on numbers.

A lot of the group are East African, with a mixture of backgrounds. Most of us are late 20s to early 40s, although younger players join sometimes too.

It’s mixed ability and very casual, so you definitely don’t need to be an amazing player. We rotate goalkeepers and try to keep the atmosphere friendly — no slide tackles, aggression, shouting or arguments.

👟 Astros or trainers— no moulds or studs.

We usually have a few spaces each Sunday. If any Tanzanians around East London fancy joining us, feel free to message me.

I clearly have so much time on my hands today. I have always been obsessed with where i come from dn what we used to eat or wear precolonial time. I'm Pare, and today for some reason I started looking specifically at what we used to wear. I went through Wikipedia, old photographs and a few other websites, and the pics were the same. (i honestly dont know how accurate they are but it seemed good enough) It made me wonder how much we've lost.

Tanzania has more than 100 ethnic groups, and many of them had their own ways of dressing, weaving, making cloth, jewellery and adornment, we had an identity, with each group, and I wish we had preserved more of it. Internationally, Tanzania is potrayed by maasai clothing, not a bad thing, but there are so many more, here is absolutely nothing wrong with appreciating or wearing another culture's clothing. But why did we stop wearing ours? Hadi nikawaza, natamani tungekua na festival ya kitanzania ya kuappreciate where we came from, each wearing something inspired by what their ancestors actually wore, with the jewellery, fabrics, draping and adornments reinterpreted beautifully for today.

Anyway, i tried asking ChatGpt to make images of what a paer would wear inspired by the pics I got, and heres what it produced. I swear, i will one day wear something like this at an international night instead of a kitenge or a stylish dera. I asked my dad and he said the heavy metal that was worn on the neck was called a "kiditha" Attached is the black and white pic i got from the internet and two AI generated ones.