Check financial statements without leaving Excel

The suite recomputes every total and subtotal of the statements and notes. It finds totals by arithmetic, not by reading row labels, so it works whatever the language of the report. When a printed total does not add up and the difference matches a known pattern, the suite names the likely cause:

• An amount is missing from the sum, or one amount too many is included.
• Two digits are swapped: the difference divides by 9.
• A sign is flipped.
• The gap is rounding, within the tolerance you set.
• The OCR reading is doubtful: low confidence or two possible readings.
• To correct a calculation, click the amounts that make up the sum.

Each amount on the face statements is looked up in the note it refers to first, then anywhere else in the document by value. It gets one of five statuses: consistent in the note, found elsewhere (with the page), inconsistent, ambiguous, or not found in the note it refers to. Only amounts printed with at least 3 digits are checked: zeros, dashes and shorter figures are skipped, because small numbers match by coincidence. An amount that refers to no note and appears nowhere else gets no status.

Add last year’s report and the suite pairs this year’s comparatives with last year’s figures by value, without reading column headers. The prior-year document is optional.

When the client sends a new version, a tickmark moves to it only if the same amount is printed on the same line. The others are listed with the reason: amount changed, several matching amounts, or no amount under the tickmark. A version compare procedure shows what changed between drafts.

The language of each paragraph is detected on its own: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish or Dutch, with Austrian, Swiss, British and American variants. Short paragraphs follow the language of their page. Accounting word lists with HGB and IFRS terms keep false alarms down.

• The check runs in the add-in. Dictionaries load only for the languages the document contains.

In the document viewer, Find All Sums detects printed totals, turns each one into a Sum Snip and exports the list to Excel with the page, the total and its parts.

Each test has its tickmark: ^ and < for mathematical accuracy, IC for internal consistency, PY for the prior period, blue when correct and red when not. Mark or flag an item in one click, or apply every suggested correct tickmark to a page or to the whole document.

• Add up to twelve tickmarks of your own next to your organization’s.
• A red tickmark gets a comment written from its diagnosis, which you can edit.

Items start as suggestions. A red tickmark turns an item into a finding. Findings are accepted, rejected or marked for review, and a procedure can be signed off only once every open finding is resolved.

Export an annotated PDF with every tickmark or with findings only, a cover page with the counts per test and the tickmark legend, and comments as PDF notes. The Excel findings sheet links each amount to its place in the PDF.

The HGB Anhang checklist ships with the product: 62 points derived from the text of §§ 264 and 284 to 288 HGB, each citing its paragraph, plus two size-class questions under § 267 HGB that hide what § 288 HGB exempts. For IFRS or US GAAP, upload your firm’s checklist as CSV, Excel or JSON.

• An AI model reads the statements and proposes an answer for each point, with the passage it relied on. Blast Audit then looks for that passage in the document: a point whose evidence cannot be found stays unverified and cannot be accepted.
• You accept, reject or answer yourself. Each decision carries your name and the date.
• Scope out points before the run. Follow-up questions open from your answers.
• Export a PDF audit trail or an Excel workpaper. The checklist review uses AI credits; the other checks on this page do not.