Bookkeepers + Debt Management: The Challenge
As bookkeeper, 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 Bookkeepers with Debt Management
BankScan AI handles every major UK bank format automatically. Upload the PDF, download the spreadsheet — no manual data entry needed. For debt management specifically, BankScan AI extracts Net income from all sources, essential living costs (housing, utilities, food, t automatically.
How Bookkeepers Handle Debt Management
When preparing bank statements for debt management, bookkeepers need to Bookkeepers collect bank statements from clients weekly or monthly, categorise each transaction against the chart of accounts, reconcile balances, and. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: chart of accounts, bank feed, transaction categorisation, month-end close.
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 bookkeepers 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 Bookkeepers — Debt Management
- Built for Bookkeepers — Saves approximately 30 minutes per client per month on data entry, freeing up 8-10 hours per week for a bookkeeper with 20+ clients
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Xero, QuickBooks Online, FreeAgent
- 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: Bookkeepers + Debt Management
When bookkeepers prepare bank statements for debt management, specific compliance requirements apply.
- Bookkeepers operating under ICB or IAB membership must follow professional standards for data handling and client confidentiality. GDPR applies to all client financial data, and Making Tax Digital requires digital record-keeping for VAT-registered clients.
- Legal basis: Insolvency Act 1986 Part VIII (Individual Voluntary Arrangements); FCA CONC 8 (debt counselling, debt adjusting, and debt administration)
Debt Management — Built for Bookkeepers
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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