Convert Fidelity Investments brokerage statements to Excel, CSV & QBO

What a Fidelity Investments brokerage statement looks like

Fidelity statements contain a Core Account (cash) activity section alongside holdings and trade activity; the cash activity is what most people convert for bookkeeping.

US statements usually open with an account summary (beginning balance, deposits, withdrawals, fees, ending balance) followed by transaction sections and a daily balance table.

How to convert a Fidelity Investments statement

• Sign in to fidelity.com under Statements and download the statement for the period you need as a PDF (not a screenshot).
• If the PDF is password-protected, open it and save an unprotected copy first.
• Upload one or several months to StatementPilot. Scanned or photographed statements are read with OCR.
• Check the reconciliation panel: the "Beginning Market Value" plus deposits minus withdrawals should equal the "Ending Market Value".
• Export to Excel or CSV for analysis, or QBO/OFX/QIF to import into QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop and Quicken.

Dates, amounts and account numbers in the US

Amounts use a period for decimals and commas for thousands (1,234.56). Withdrawals are often shown with a minus sign or in a separate column. We read the date order from the statement itself and default to MM/DD/YYYY for United States, so 03/04 is never silently swapped.

Only the last four digits of the account number are printed on most pages; the full routing number appears on checks, not in transaction rows. Only the masked or last digits are carried into QBO/OFX files, as those importers expect.

What gets extracted from a Fidelity Investments statement

For brokerage statements we extract the cash activity — deposits, withdrawals, dividends, interest, fees and trade settlements — as dated transactions with a running cash balance. Position and holdings tables are not exported as transactions.

Why statements are still needed

Banks must provide periodic statements under Regulation E for electronic transfers, and most keep 7 years of PDF statements available online.