Consultants + Debt Management: The Challenge
As consultant, 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 Consultants with Debt Management
Convert your bank statements to structured spreadsheets to match client payments, track project expenses, and prepare invoices and tax returns efficiently. For debt management specifically, BankScan AI extracts Net income from all sources, essential living costs (housing, utilities, food, t automatically.
How Consultants Handle Debt Management
When preparing bank statements for debt management, consultants need to Consultants invoice clients on retainer, milestone, or time-and-materials bases, then reconcile bank statements to verify payments received. They trac. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: retainer, day rate, scope creep, utilisation rate.
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 consultants 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 Consultants — Debt Management
- Built for Consultants — Saves 1-2 hours per month on client payment reconciliation and expense tracking across multiple concurrent engagements
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Xero, FreeAgent, Harvest
- 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: Consultants + Debt Management
When consultants prepare bank statements for debt management, specific compliance requirements apply.
- IR35 rules may apply to consultants working through limited companies. VAT registration is common above the threshold. Professional indemnity insurance costs must be tracked. Companies House and corporation tax obligations apply for limited company consultants. Self-employed consultants must file self-assessment returns.
- Legal basis: Insolvency Act 1986 Part VIII (Individual Voluntary Arrangements); FCA CONC 8 (debt counselling, debt adjusting, and debt administration)
Debt Management — Built for Consultants
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
Try Free — Consultants + Debt Management