Letting Agents + Audit Preparation: The Challenge
As letting agent, preparing bank statements for audit preparation is a common but time-consuming task. Auditors need to verify bank balances and test transactions against financial statements. Getting bank data into a workable format is the first bottleneck.
How BankScan AI Helps Letting Agents with Audit Preparation
Convert your client money account statements to Excel for fast reconciliation of rent receipts, deposit transfers, and management fee deductions. For audit preparation specifically, BankScan AI extracts Year-end bank balance for bank confirmation, large or unusual transactions for s automatically.
How Letting Agents Handle Audit Preparation
When preparing bank statements for audit preparation, letting agents need to Letting agents collect rent from tenants into client money accounts, deduct management fees, pay landlords their net rent, handle deposit protection s. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: client money protection, landlord statement, tenant deposit scheme, management fee.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload Full financial year (12 months), plus confirmation of opening and closing balances for the period under audit of statements for audit preparation.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts Year-end bank balance for bank confirmation, large or unusua — formatted for letting agents workflows.
Complete your audit preparation work
Download Excel files ready for audit preparation. Transactions sorted chronologically with running balance, year-end closing balance matching the bank confirmation letter, amounts in audit sampling format
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Letting Agents — Audit Preparation
- Built for Letting Agents — Saves 3-4 hours per week on client money account reconciliation for a letting agent managing 100+ properties
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Goodlord, Arthur Online, PayProp
- Built for Audit Preparation — Convert bank statements to structured Excel files for audit testing, balance verification, and transaction sampling. Save hours of data preparation.
- Key data extracted — Year-end bank balance for bank confirmation, large or unusual transactions for substantive testing, unreconciled items, related party transactions
Compliance: Letting Agents + Audit Preparation
When letting agents prepare bank statements for audit preparation, specific compliance requirements apply.
- Letting agents must comply with Client Money Protection (CMP) schemes, which are now mandatory. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 restricts chargeable fees. Deposit protection within 30 days is a legal requirement. ARLA Propertymark members face additional auditing of client money accounts. Anti-money laundering rules apply to property transactions.
- Legal basis: Companies Act 2006 sections 475-539 (statutory audit requirements); ISA (UK) 500 on audit evidence and ISA (UK) 505 on external confirmations
Audit Preparation — Built for Letting Agents
Statutory accounts must be filed within 9 months of year-end for private companies; audit fieldwork typically compressed into 2-4 weeks
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