Accountants + Debt Management: The Challenge
As an accountant, preparing bank statements for debt management is a common but time-consuming task. Debt management advisors and IVA supervisors need detailed analysis of a debtor's bank statements to assess income, essential spending, and disposable income.
How BankScan AI Helps Accountants with Debt Management
BankScan AI lets you drag-and-drop any client's bank statement PDF and get a formatted Excel spreadsheet in seconds — ready to import into Xero, QuickBooks, or Sage. For debt management specifically, BankScan AI extracts Net income from all sources, essential living costs (housing, utilities, food, t automatically.
How Accountants Handle Debt Management
When preparing bank statements for debt management, accountants need to Accountants typically receive client bank statements monthly, reconcile them against purchase and sales ledgers, post adjusting entries, and prepare m. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: nominal ledger, bank reconciliation, trial balance, management accounts.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload 3-6 months of recent statements to establish a reliable income and expenditure pattern for the proposal of statements for debt management.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts Net income from all sources, essential living costs (housing — formatted for accountants workflows.
Complete your debt management work
Download Excel files ready for debt management. Income and expenditure categorised according to the Standard Financial Statement (SFS) format used across the UK debt advice sector
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Accountants — Debt Management
- Built for Accountants — Saves an average of 45 minutes per client per month on bank reconciliation, or 6+ hours per week for a typical practice with 30 clients
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Xero, Sage, QuickBooks
- Built for Debt Management — Convert bank statements to Excel to quickly categorise income and expenditure, calculate disposable income, and prepare debt management or IVA proposals.
- Key data extracted — Net income from all sources, essential living costs (housing, utilities, food, transport), non-essential spending to reduce, existing debt repayments, disposable income calculation
Compliance: Accountants + Debt Management
When accountants prepare bank statements for debt management, specific compliance requirements apply.
- Accountants must comply with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations requiring them to verify client bank transactions. HMRC Making Tax Digital mandates quarterly digital submissions, and ICAEW/ACCA practice standards require accurate record-keeping with full audit trails.
- Legal basis: Insolvency Act 1986 Part VIII (Individual Voluntary Arrangements); FCA CONC 8 (debt counselling, debt adjusting, and debt administration)
Debt Management — Built for Accountants
IVA proposals must be sent to creditors within 14 days of the nominee's report; debt management plans need quick setup to stop creditor action and interest accrual
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