Check statements and reports before you sign off
Audit work means checking figures across stacks of PDF statements and reports. Altera extracts them into tables, totals them, and shows you where data is missing.
The challenge
Checks have to be thorough and repeatable, but the source documents are PDFs. Sampling by hand takes time and leaves gaps.
Documents it handles
- Account and balance statements
- Financial and management reports
- Third-party confirmations
- Regulatory filings
The workflow
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Step by step
- 1PDF Converter
Extract the figures
Highlight the balance table in the PDF Converter to turn it into a table.
- 2Regular Expressions
Pick out account numbers
Use a pattern to pull clean account numbers out of longer text.
- 3Change Type
Make balances numeric
Convert balances to numbers so they can be totalled.
- 4Aggregate · Export
Total the balances
Calculate totals, counts, minimums, and maximums, and export them for your working papers.
- 5Summary
Spot missing values and gaps
Check every column for blanks and gaps before you rely on the numbers.
What you get
- Check every line, not just a sample
- A clear, visible record of every check you ran
- Re-run the same checks on next period's documents
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