Solicitors + Audit Preparation: The Challenge
As solicitor, 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 Solicitors with Audit Preparation
Convert client and third-party bank statements to searchable, sortable Excel spreadsheets for faster case analysis and evidence preparation. For audit preparation specifically, BankScan AI extracts Year-end bank balance for bank confirmation, large or unusual transactions for s automatically.
How Solicitors Handle Audit Preparation
When preparing bank statements for audit preparation, solicitors need to Solicitors receive bank statements as part of financial disclosure in family, fraud, or commercial litigation. They review statements to trace assets,. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: financial disclosure, Form E, asset tracing, client account reconciliation.
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 solicitors 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 Solicitors — Audit Preparation
- Built for Solicitors — Saves 1-2 hours per case on financial disclosure analysis, with complex matrimonial cases saving up to 4 hours per set of statements
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Clio, LEAP Legal Software, PracticeEvolve
- 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: Solicitors + Audit Preparation
When solicitors prepare bank statements for audit preparation, specific compliance requirements apply.
- SRA Accounts Rules require solicitors to reconcile client account bank statements within 5 weeks of the statement date. Failure to comply can result in regulatory action including fines or intervention. Anti-money laundering checks under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 also require scrutiny of client bank 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 Solicitors
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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