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CAM Reconciliation

Reconcile a landlord's CAM statement against the lease and catch every over- or under-billing, with each finding cited to the controlling clause.

Real EstateAccounting & Finance Ops

Impact

Annual CAM reconciliations that take a team weeks are reviewed tenant-by-tenant in minutes, with recoveries-variance detection extended to every tenant at portfolio scale rather than a spot-check sample

per tenant reconciliation

Volume fit

Works best for

teams reconciling dozens or hundreds of tenant CAM statements each year across a multi-tenant portfolio

Too small for

a single-tenant net-lease property with little recovery complexity, where a spot-check is faster than setup

Typical inputs

Documents

  • Landlord CAM and operating-expense reconciliation statement
  • Governing lease and amendments
  • Prior-year reconciliation statement or estimates billed
  • General-ledger or expense detail backing the statement

Systems

  • Email
  • Yardi
  • MRI
  • Google Drive
  • SharePoint

Output

A per-tenant reconciliation showing the expense pool, cap and gross-up adjustments, base-year offset, true-up balance, and a ranked list of over- or under-billing exceptions cited to the lease

Delivered to

  • Lease administration system
  • Deal or property folder
  • Dispute or audit file

What it extracts

· 12 fields
  • Form

    Reconciliation Summary

    A one-look roll-up of the property, tenant, recovery structure, pool, tenant responsibility, and true-up result so a reviewer can orient before reading the detail.

  • Form

    Property and Tenant Information

    The property, tenant, period, and the pro-rata share with its basis; the share is recomputed from premises and building area so an incorrect denominator is caught.

  • Form

    Lease Recovery Terms

    The recovery terms read from the lease itself - structure, base year, recoverable pool, exclusions, gross-up, cap, fee, and audit right - that form the standard every charge is tested against.

  • Table

    Expense Pool Line Items

    Every expense line on the statement classified controllable versus non-controllable and capital versus operating, tested for lease includability, and re-footed as pool times pro-rata share.

  • Form

    Gross-Up Adjustment

    The occupancy gross-up assessment, confirming it is applied only to variable expenses and flagging fixed costs grossed up in error, a common overcharge.

  • Form

    Controllable Expense Cap

    The controllable-expense cap tested against the lease, distinguishing cumulative, non-cumulative, and compounding caps and computing the amount disallowed above the ceiling.

  • Form

    Base Year or Expense Stop

    The base-year or expense-stop offset that limits the tenant to expenses above the base, with a comparability check that the base was grossed up on the same basis as the current year.

  • Form

    Real Estate Taxes

    The real estate tax pass-through reconciled separately as a non-controllable, non-grossed-up pool, flagging any penalties, interest, or income and transfer taxes that do not belong.

  • Form

    Administrative and Management Fee

    The administrative or management fee recomputed at the lease rate and permitted base, isolating any overcharge from a fee above the cap or on an improper base.

  • Form

    Reconciliation True-Up

    The year-end true-up built up from the capped, grossed-up, base-year-adjusted pool less estimates billed, with a math check that names the component driving any gap when it does not foot.

  • Table

    Variance and Exception Flags

    The ranked list of over- or under-billing exceptions, each with the governing lease reference, the statement reference, an estimated dollar impact, and a recommended action.

  • Form

    Audit Rights and Dispute Window

    The tenant's right to challenge the statement, including the objection or audit deadline as a computed date, so the window is not missed.

Prerequisites

  • The executed lease with all amendments so recovery terms can be verified
  • The tenant's estimated CAM billed during the reconciliation period
  • The tenant's premises and the building or project rentable area for the pro-rata share

Human review

A lease administrator or asset manager reviews the flagged variances and each cited clause before a corrected statement is accepted, a payment is released, or a dispute is raised.

Where it fits

Operating-expense recoveries administration

Lease Abstraction - the governing recovery terms (structure, base year, pro-rata share, caps, gross-up, exclusions, audit rights) are pulled from the abstracted lease; the landlord's year-end reconciliation statement arrives by email or portal

This step

CAM reconciliation and true-up review

After

Tenant billing adjustment or refund
Dispute or audit-right exercise
Asset-management and owner reporting

Who uses it

Lease AdministratorAsset ManagerReal Estate AccountantTenant Advocate / Lease AuditorProperty Manager

Grounded in

  • Governing authority is the lease contractverified as of 2026-07-22
  • BOMA measurement standards (Building Owners and Managers Association, Office and Retail floor-measurement standards)verified as of 2026-07-22
  • ASC 842 (FASB Accounting Standards Codification, Leases)verified as of 2026-07-22

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