Abstract: A system and method providing a financial transaction management tool operable to provide contextual information relating to particular financial transactions is provided. The financial transaction management tool is operable to highlight associations between bank data, source documents and manual or automated financial data. The financial transaction management tool is further operable to organize accounting information and contextual information into an easy to read format and that operates to assemble and thereby bring together sources relating to a financial transaction so that such sources are easily viewable. In some embodiments of the present invention the multiple sources may be viewable in a single view. The financial transaction management tool is also operable to organize multiple transactions in a single transaction stream.