Whichever order your HSBC Bank Malta statement prints its columns in, each one still has to land in the right place once it reaches a spreadsheet. When you convert a statement, the transaction table needs to land in your ledger cleanly. The export step maps each extracted column (date, description, debit, credit) to the corresponding column in your chosen format. You see a preview of the mapping before the file is written, so you can confirm the arrangement or adjust it. Debit and credit columns are assigned the correct sign automatically, and the closing balance moves into the correct field in the export. The result is a file ready for import: no trailing spaces, no merged cells, no stray characters left behind by a rushed copy.
If the running balance on your HSBC Bank Malta statement does not add up row by row, that is exactly the kind of mismatch Convert·Into is built to catch rather than pass through silently. Every conversion is checked against the original statement document. The running balance printed on the statement is read row by row and recalculated from the extracted amounts. If any line breaks the arithmetic (a 3 misread as an 8, a credit that landed in the debit column) the row is flagged for review and the closing balance is compared against the statement's own printed closing figure. You can fix the flagged row, and only that row, and re-export; the rest of the file stays intact. Because the verification uses the statement's own printed balance, you can trust that the converted file matches what the bank issued, without a manual spot-check of every line.