Review your clients’ changes. Keep your closing reference points.
An invoice amended after review. A journal dated in an earlier month. A client whose captured records have changed since year-end. Accaud brings those questions back to the evidence, with a separate audit trail and saved closes for each client.
Your practice may review several organisations, but their audit sequences should remain separate. Accaud’s Overview brings clients together with their last sync and counts of relevant captured audit events since their latest month-end and year-end closes.
Those counts are a starting point for investigation, not a count of proven errors or necessarily unique transactions. An amendment can produce more than one audit row. Where no close has been saved, the client shows “No close yet” rather than implying there have been no changes.
| Client | Closing evidence | Review question | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Client A | Month-end saved | A September invoice differs from the saved October close | Check changes |
| Client B | Year-end saved | A manual journal was first captured after finalisation | Review evidence |
| Client C | No close yet | No saved reference point for a closing comparison | Save a close |
Open the relevant client’s trail to investigate its records. Each client has its own numbering; combining organisations does not create a meaningful shared accounting sequence.
Finalisation saves a period end, the actual closing timestamp, the finaliser and captured transaction snapshots. A later “Check for changes” compares that reference point with the latest captured records and relevant subsequent audit events.
You finalise a client’s 31 October month-end on 3 November. An invoice dated 20 September is amended and captured in a later sync. Because the closing scope includes transactions dated on or before 31 October, that earlier-period adjustment can appear in the October check.
A supported manual journal appears in a later capture with an accounting date on or before the saved year-end. The comparison can show it as “New”, with debit and credit sides in the audit trail. “New” means new to the captured comparison, not proof of when it was created in the source account.
Closing the same period again retains the original evidence and marks the older close as superseded. Read the guide to checking changes after month-end or year-end.
Finalising in Accaud does not lock the source ledger. Source-account lock dates and practice closing controls remain separate from monitoring captured evidence.
Review the original and later captured values, the accounting date and the available attribution. A financial amendment may be represented by a cancellation of the original recorded posting followed by a corrected posting; that presentation does not mean Accaud issued a credit note in the source account.
See the audit-trail guide for interpreting recorded changes, or the Change down report for comparing captured reporting evidence at two moments.
Review the client’s latest sync and any failures before relying on a comparison.
An authorised reviewer or administrator finalises the relevant client’s month-end or year-end.
After a later successful sync, check for changes rather than assuming the reviewed period stayed unchanged.
Read the summary, inspect the audit evidence and open supported source references to investigate.
If you finalise again, distinguish the superseded reference point from the newer evidence.
Accaud works from captured versions of supported records, not a complete general-ledger feed. It cannot reconstruct every pre-connection edit or guarantee separate evidence for changes made between syncs. Missing permissions, failed captures and unavailable attribution can leave gaps.
“No changes found” describes the available captured evidence; it is not assurance that the complete ledger is unchanged. Reconstructed financial reports should not be treated as a complete trial balance, profit and loss or balance sheet.
Yes. Overview brings the clients together, while transaction numbering and saved closing evidence remain client-specific. Open a particular client’s records to investigate its changes.
Accaud administrators and reviewers can finalise a period. The saved close records the finaliser separately from any user attributed to a transaction change.
No. Counts reflect relevant captured audit events since a saved close. Expected corrections can generate events too, and one amendment can produce multiple rows. Review the evidence before deciding whether action is needed.
No. The accounting connection is read-only. Accaud saves evidence and comparisons; it does not post corrections, issue credit notes or lock your clients’ source ledgers.
