The client account review
The written review of your client account, if you want one.
The first step costs nothing: open the software on invented files, then bring a sample of your own files for a free hour with us. If you then want findings in writing, the review reads an export of your ledgers, cash book and bank statements against the SRA Accounts Rules.
- It reads your ledgers, not ours, so you judge it against an account you know.
- Nothing is installed and nothing connects. It runs on an export your own staff produce.
- You get a written note of exceptions, yours to keep if you go no further.
- The fee is published and fixed, and commits your firm to nothing else.
Illustrative. Three screens from the working software, on invented files. The platform, screen by screen.
A testimonial tells you how another firm got on. A review tells you where your client account stands.
A case study asks you to accept a stranger's account of a firm you cannot inspect. This note is what the compliance officer already does on the five weekly cycle.
Every exception carries the entries it rests on and the working behind it, so where the reading is wrong you see it against your ledger.
How it runs
Before anything is sent
We agree the period and the scope, ordinarily the client ledgers, the cash book and the bank statements, exported by your accounts staff.
Nothing installed, nothing migrated
Nothing connects to your systems. How the export is held, used and returned goes into the engagement letter before anything leaves.
What it reads and produces
The engine reads the record against the SRA Accounts Rules, entry by entry and across the period. Each exception carries its rule and the working.
Why that is not cashiering
Cashiering records what happened, and the incumbents do it well. None of them reads that record against the rules for the officer who signs the reconciliation.
An exception is an entry put up for investigation, not a conclusion. Four of the product's refusals are set out in full.
The written note
You receive a note setting out each exception with its entries and rule, and what the engine did not reach.
The note reaches no verdict
It characterises nothing as a breach and expresses no view on whether anything is reportable. Those judgements and your reporting duties stay yours.
A firm that reads the note, decides against us and closes two of its exceptions has had value from it.
The fee and what follows
The fee is fixed rather than quoted, published on the prices page with the subscription for both products.
What the firm has bought
Whatever you decide, you have a written diagnostic on your own client account for a known sum.
What follows is on the day one page, including three unsettled questions on migration and service levels.
Questions partners ask first
Does it touch live client data?
It reads an export of the ledgers, the cash book and the bank statements, which is client money data. Nothing connects to your systems and the export serves the review alone. Anonymise the names first if you prefer.
What does it cost in time?
The scoping conversation and the export, which your cashier produces from the system you run. Nobody tidies anything first, because a review that needs the books tidied is measuring the tidying.
What if it finds nothing?
Then the note says so and you have it in writing for a fixed sum. We would rather lose a sale there than at month four.
Do you keep our data afterwards?
What we hold and where it sits is on the security page, and the commitments about your data leaving are on the day one page.
Contact
Six answers and we start
Your name, the firm, the accounts system you run and how many fee earners hold client money matters. Enough to scope a review, or to say it would waste it.
Book a free hour on your own files