Anyone will soon turn a trial balance into a set of accounts. That was never the hard part. The hard part is everything an accountant means by the file: the working papers, the schedules, the reconciliations, the trail that lets a partner sign with confidence and lets the firm defend every figure afterwards. That is what AllDone produces. Not a shortcut past the file. The file itself, complete, to the standard of an award-winning practice, every time.
Lead schedules for every area, at full granularity. An aged debtors balance is not one line for £10,000; it is the invoices underneath it. The detail your reviewer wants is already there, agreed to source.
Every balance sheet section reconciled; revenue checked to box 6; tangible and intangible fixed assets agreed; PAYE creditor proven; directors' remuneration and gross salary analysis.
Preliminary and final, the full ratio set, with material variances surfaced and graded against materiality so the reviewer starts where it matters. It also creates the story of the client's numbers, ready for the client conversation, and helps with sign-off for the partner.
UK small limited companies and micro-entities, with every disclosure the standards require.
Capital allowances rolled forward, marginal relief, S455 on overdrawn directors' loan accounts, deferred tax. Every number calculated, not generated: UK tax legislation applied line for line, the same answer every time, workings you can show HMRC.
Every judgement the engine detects is surfaced as a decision with options and a recommendation. Your partner confirms or amends. The choice, the reason, and the timestamp go to a permanent audit trail and are carried into the review pack.
The file arrives with the story of the year already assembled: what changed, what was decided and why, what needs the partner's eye. Review starts at the judgement, not the casting.
What the job was worth to the client, stated plainly. If the accounts were prepared to minimise tax, how well that was done and by how much. If they were prepared to present the business for exit, sale, investment or a loan, how well the numbers make that case. The answer follows from the profit intent settled at planning, and it turns the year-end meeting into a conversation about value.
Interactive completion checklist, the client communications drafted for each stage of the job, and journal and ledger exports for Xero, QuickBooks and Sage, with exports for IRIS, TaxCalc and other filing tools.
The preparation takes seconds. The job takes about an hour, because the process is deliberately paced so your firm stays in control: profit intent settled at planning, no start until the records are complete, decisions gated through your partner, sign-off unchanged. Nothing about your professional obligations moves. Same standards, same sign-off, same responsibility.
What changes is that the hour is spent on judgement and the client, not on casting schedules, and the file behind the signature is fuller than the one you build by hand.
The same engine cold-reviews work your firm has already delivered. Take the Cold Review Challenge: put ten jobs you've already signed off to the test and see whether they could have been done better. Or run the dual-track pilot: one person on AllDone, one the old way, same job, compare the files side by side.