Who this is for
Finance manager or bookkeeper who writes commentary for the monthly pack.
Month-end commentary is due every month, and you want each figure traceable to your ledger lines.
The result
Each month you receive a one-page variance draft on your export, with every number and percentage recomputed by script, each variance tied to its ledger lines, every reason quoted from your notes or asked as a question, and the count of sentences your reader marked supported or unsupported on last month's draft.
What is included
- One month's variance draft from a consistent profit and loss or trial-balance export and its ledger lines
- The recompute script re-run, and re-mapped if your layout changes
- A table tying each variance to the ledger lines behind it
- Reasons quoted from your notes, otherwise questions
- The previous month's sentences marked supported or unsupported by your reader
You receive
- The monthly draft
- Script output
- Question list
- Supported or unsupported count
What is not included
- Forecasts or advice
- Signing off or presenting the commentary
- Accounting, tax, audit, legal or financial advice: a named person at your business decides every money question
- Filing, submitting, approving, posting or paying anything in any system
- A statement that your figures are correct, complete or ready for audit
- Any response-time guarantee or out-of-hours cover
What we need from you first
- Which one-off version fits you, and the volume you expect each month
- Who receives the monthly result. No files or logins in the first enquiry
Never send passwords, keys, customer records or confidential code in the first enquiry. Secure handover is agreed after scoping.
How we check it is done
- Each month the recompute script matches every number and percentage in the draft to the export, or delivery is blocked
- For each variance sentence, the script reconciles the actual figure to its named ledger lines and subtracts the stated budget or prior-period figure to reproduce the variance, to the penny; a separate reconciliation of all profit-and-loss leaf accounts, each counted once with income and expense signs, equals the difference in net profit between the month and its comparison
- From month two, the previous month's draft has no sentence marked unsupported by your reader
- Each month the frozen test pack is re-run, and every case that passed last month still passes; a case that fails is reported with its cause
- Originals are unchanged (checksums match) and nothing was written to any live system by us
You read each month's result and tell us whether the test and thresholds still suit you. A month counts as delivered when you have received the result and the test report.
When we would stop or decline
- Inputs change shape and cannot be mapped to the agreed one
- Nobody on your side reads the monthly result for two months running
- You want the system to post, send, file or pay by itself, without a person at your business approving each action
Questions
Will it explain variances by itself?
Only from your notes. Without a note it asks you a question.
Who signs it off?
Your named reader. We do not present or sign off commentary.
Is this the same as commentary on a report pack?
No. This is month-end variance against budget or last month, tied to ledger lines. Commentary on a report pack for any team is a separate job.
Price and terms
£145/month · untested offer price. Billing is monthly under the written terms we agree with you. Nothing is charged until you have agreed them.
This is a new service with no published client results. The price is a starting point we have not yet tested with buyers. Nothing is ordered or charged by the enquiry. The full specification is on the Synthetic Industry catalogue.