How a Condominium Audit Runs on Condo Audit Pro

From the client’s first upload to signed, board-ready statements. The platform does the preparation — about 20 hours in Excel and audit templates becomes about 5 on a typical condominium audit (our estimate) — and a licensed CPA decides every judgment, signs, and closes.

1

Upload & answer, once

Send your documents through one secure portal and answer a short set of questions up front — no year-long email chains.

2

The file is prepared for CPA review

The platform organizes the records, reads the documents, prepares the testing file, surfaces flags, and keeps the CPA’s review trail together.

3

Questions, all in one place

Any follow-up questions or document requests come through the portal and email — and stay attached to your audit, so nothing gets lost.

4

Receive your package

Your CPA completes their review and delivers the final, board-ready audit package — ready for your AGM.

Where a Condominium Audit’s Hours Go

On a typical small condominium audit, preparation takes about 20 hours in Excel workbooks and desktop audit templates: chasing documents, retyping ledgers and bank statements, recomputing every owner’s fee, building the fund continuity in a spreadsheet and editing each letter. With the platform, about 5. The CPA’s own time is cut least — by design, because judgment should stay human.

Junior staff9 h → 1.5 h
Senior staff7 h → 2 h
CPA4 h → 1.5 h
The same senior4× the audits

Estimates for a typical small corporation. Each firm’s own figures come from its first engagements on the platform.

All 47 CPA Screens — Today and With Condo Audit Pro

Open a stage to see each screen: how the work is done today in Excel and audit templates, what the platform does instead, and the estimated preparation hours.

Overview2 screens · 0.3 h → 0.1 h

Every engagement and its status, worked out from the file itself.

  • Dashboard

    0.3 h → 0.05 h

    Every engagement, at a glance.

    The firm’s worklist: every active audit, where it stands, and what needs attention next.

    • Tiles: active engagements, documents to verify, open flags, questions to send
    • Status per file: awaiting documents, processing, in review, close-ready
    • An approvals queue for the CPA
    • Works across the whole firm — no engagement needs to be open
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    A tracking spreadsheet and an email trail

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Live status of every engagement and its open flags

  • Stage Tracker

    No preparation

    Eighteen stages. Always current.

    A live view of where one engagement stands across the eighteen stages of a condo audit — worked out from the file itself, never ticked by hand.

    • The current stage highlighted
    • Derived from the work actually done
    • Nothing to update or maintain
    • The same picture for CPA and staff
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    A status column updated when someone remembers

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Audit stages worked out automatically

Set up the file6 screens · 2.0 h → 0.8 h

Engagement, acceptance, independence and the building’s facts — from documents, not retyping.

  • Engagement

    0.3 h → 0.1 h

    One dropdown changes the deliverable.

    The engagement cover sheet: corporation, period, management company, prior-year file and assigned CPA — plus the dates that feed every letter.

    • Engagement letter, report and planning dates feed every document
    • Report type: audit, review or compilation
    • Audit produces an auditor’s report; review a CSRE 2400 report
    • Fee and payments recorded per engagement
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Dates and fee re-keyed from the engagement letter

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Letter date and fees read from the documents; CPA confirms

  • Acceptance (5.3)

    0.3 h → 0.3 h

    Built for condominium independence risk.

    27 procedures across 14 sections for accepting or continuing the engagement — including a management-company block that generic software does not have.

    • Quality, history, predecessor, integrity, risk, competence, independence
    • Management-company block (CAS 402): fee dependence on one manager
    • Preliminary and final conclusions, written by the CPA
    • Progress meter: X of 27 answered
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Acceptance template filled in again each year

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Same form, kept manual by design: the CPA signs

  • Independence (5.8)

    0.2 h → 0.2 h

    Independent of the client — and its manager.

    The team’s confirmation of independence from the corporation and from the management company, in appearance and in fact.

    • One fixed confirmation statement
    • Six roster slots: partner, senior, technicians, EQCR, other
    • Blank slots save cleanly — a sole practitioner is not forced to invent a team
    • Prepared and reviewed sign-offs
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Independence template filled in again each year

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Kept manual by design

  • Corporation Details

    0.3 h → 0.05 h

    The client suggests. The CPA confirms.

    The corporation’s facts as the client supplied them at intake, beside the current record — confirmed or rejected row by row.

    • Client suggested · current · action, per field
    • Confirm or reject each row
    • Confirm all matched and finish, in one click
    • Fields with no sourced fact are left blank, never guessed
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Re-keyed from client emails and PDFs

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Client supplies at intake; one-click confirm per field

  • Scoping

    0.4 h → 0.1 h

    Every risk-bearing answer becomes a finding.

    The client’s scoping answers, plus the AGM and the management companies for the year — with every risk-bearing “yes” routed into the audit.

    • AGM required, booked, attended or waived, with its date
    • One row per management company; a mid-year change expects two fee checks
    • Flagged items panel shows which answers routed an audit step
    • Each risk-bearing yes raises a finding so it cannot be forgotten
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Scoping template filled in without the books to hand

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Pre-filled from the trial balance, documents and last year

  • Unit Classification

    0.5 h → 0.05 h

    The roster, from the registered plan.

    Every unit, its type and its entitlement, built from the condominium plan — with the client’s own ranges as a cross-check.

    • Unit · type (townhome or apartment) · entitlement
    • Bulk editor: set many units at once
    • A running total proves entitlements sum to the plan (e.g. 10,000)
    • Townhome/apartment split for separate cost allocation
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Every unit and its factor keyed into a workbook

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Roster built from the condominium plan; client ranges as a cross-check

Plan the audit6 screens · 3.0 h → 0.9 h

Planning papers pre-filled from the client, the documents and last year.

  • Understanding the Corporation (7.1)

    1.0 h → 0.3 h

    82 fields. Most arrive answered.

    The knowledge-of-the-client working paper: 16 sections from governance to reserve funds, with the client’s suggestions pre-filled for the CPA to confirm.

    • 54 fields arrive with the client’s suggested answer
    • Section 8 carries CAS 402: the management company as service provider
    • Risk-type answers carry forward to the risk summary automatically
    • Near-universal condo answers ship as editable defaults
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Some 80 template fields filled in by staff

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Draft answers pre-filled from documents and last year, reviewed side by side

  • Risk Assessment (7.2 / 7.3)

    0.5 h → 0.2 h

    The minutes, read for risk.

    Review of governance minutes and meetings with management: fourteen questions, a minutes log and a meetings log, feeding risks forward.

    • Minutes reviewed: date, type, decisions, risk indicators
    • Special assessments, legal issues and large contracts carry to 7.6
    • Subsequent events flagged for CAS 560
    • AI drafts the five factual answers; judgment stays with the CPA
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Risk template filled in, often rolled forward unchanged

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Pre-filled drafts; the CPA judges

  • Analytical Review (7.4)

    0.5 h → 0.1 h

    Pulled from the trial balance.

    Current and prior-year figures across the balance sheet and operations, pulled from the trial balance, with ratios and variances computed.

    • One click pulls current and prior year
    • Financial ratios and a variance comparison
    • Per-line comments, with AI drafts on request
    • Honest when there is no trial balance yet — never shows zeros
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Comparison worksheet built in Excel

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Current, prior and budget computed; explanations drafted

  • Financial Reporting Review (7.5)

    0.3 h → 0.1 h

    Fourteen procedures. Four worksheets.

    Specific inquiries and procedures — estimates, related parties, fraud, litigation, subsequent events, going concern — and the financial reporting worksheet.

    • 14 multi-part procedures with cross-references
    • Subsequent events (CAS 560) and going concern (CAS 570)
    • Worksheets: estimates, related parties, fraud scenarios, journal entries
    • Journal entries flow in from journal-entry testing
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Framework checklist completed line by line

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Pre-filled drafts, reviewed side by side

  • Risk Summary (7.6)

    0.4 h → 0.1 h

    Every risk, gathered automatically.

    The significant risks from every upstream paper, collected in one place for the CPA’s overall conclusion.

    • Six sources: knowledge of business, governance, management, analytics, reporting, controls
    • Upstream flags shown read-only beside each source
    • Conclusions on pervasive misstatement and fraud risk
    • Feeds the engagement plan
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Re-keyed from the other planning papers

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Flagged risks carry in automatically

  • Accounting Policies (2.3 – 2.6)

    0.3 h → 0.1 h

    Framework, policies, instruments, transition.

    Four papers: the ASNPO framework, accounting policies, financial instruments and transition year — each with comments, a conclusion and sign-off.

    • Province defaults, customizable by the firm
    • Reserve investment measurement policy (e.g. GICs at cost plus interest)
    • Policies flow into the financial-statement notes
    • Working-paper references and sign-off
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Rolled forward from last year’s file

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Province defaults, customizable by the firm

Get documents in1 screen · 1.5 h → 0.3 h

One client portal with named slots; every file checked on arrival.

  • Documents

    1.5 h → 0.3 h

    Every file, checked on arrival.

    Every client upload, automatically checked for readability, then verified by a person — with re-upload requests drafted for approval.

    • Automatic check, then a human verdict: verified, wrong document, unreadable
    • Turn optional slots on for the client
    • Ask the client to re-upload — drafted, never sent automatically
    • A new upload clears the “all verified” confirmation by design
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Email chasing and shared folders

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Client portal with province-named document slots, consent and an in-app viewer

Start processing1 screen

A readiness gate, then the engine runs twelve steps on its own.

  • Start Gate

    No preparation

    Four conditions. Then the engine runs.

    The readiness gate: acceptance, independence and verified documents must all be complete before processing begins.

    • Acceptance and independence complete; documents verified and confirmed
    • Checked again on the server — never trusts the screen
    • States exactly what a re-run clears and what it keeps
    • Runs twelve steps, then stops for the CPA to approve the sample
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    An informal check that everything arrived

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Confirms the file is complete before processing begins

Data from the engine7 screens · 5.6 h → 0.9 h

Records read and reconciled, the ledger matched, adjustments proposed, funds pre-filled.

  • Extraction

    1.5 h → 0.1 h

    Every record, read at the source.

    Ledgers, trial balances, bank statements and invoices read from Excel, CSV, PDF and scans — with full transparency into what was read.

    • Many bank layouts, multi-page statements, scanned pages through OCR
    • QuickBooks-style ledgers and Sage-style trial balances
    • A new layout is mapped once, then recognized automatically
    • Tidy and raw views of every page read
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Statements and ledgers re-keyed into Excel

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Excel, CSV, bank and PDF records read automatically; new layouts mapped once and remembered

  • Bank Review

    1.0 h → 0.2 h

    Every bank line, reconciled.

    Each statement’s transactions, with a completeness check that proves the statement’s own opening, movements and closing agree.

    • Confirm per row, or all rows at once
    • Completeness check with the exact difference, if any
    • Add a missed row; compare two readings side by side
    • Feeds cash support and ledger matching
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Bank lines ticked against the ledger in Excel

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Bank lines matched and reconciled; exceptions flagged

  • GL Comparison

    1.0 h → 0.2 h

    Thousands of lines, matched.

    Every ledger entry matched to its supporting record — deterministic matching first, with each result explained.

    • Matched · suggested · no support · flagged
    • Amount, date and name similarity shown side by side
    • Non-cash journals and void/reissue pairs handled correctly
    • Assertion codes per row: completeness, accuracy, existence, presentation
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Ledger vouched to the bank line by line

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Thousands of ledger lines matched automatically, with filters

  • Trial Balance

    0.3 h → 0.05 h

    Footed and tied, per account.

    The versioned working trial balance: opening, movement and closing per account, tied to the ledger, with any difference shown plainly.

    • Out-of-balance banner with the exact amount
    • Raw foot, then the foot after recorded adjustments
    • Ledger match per account, linked to the comparison
    • Versioned; only the CPA-approved version carries forward
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Footed and tied to the ledger in Excel

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Footed and tied per account; any difference shown

  • Adjustments

    0.5 h → 0.1 h

    Proposed with their evidence.

    Adjusting entries the engine can derive — trial balance versus ledger, invoice versus posted, bank versus ledger — proposed and explained, waiting for the CPA.

    • One click to accept; never recorded on its own
    • Equal and opposite bank differences proposed as one reclassification
    • Uncorrected misstatements compared with materiality
    • Recorded, not posted — the client’s books are never rewritten
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Entries worked out across several worksheets

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Proposed entries with their evidence; one click to accept; uncorrected items with the materiality comparison

  • Funds

    0.8 h → 0.1 h

    Fund continuity, clicks only.

    Operating and reserve fund continuity — openings, contributions, levies, interest, expenditures and transfers — arriving filled from the records.

    • Funds set by the province, not by code
    • Openings from last year’s closing or last year’s statements
    • A continuity that does not foot cannot be saved silently
    • Fund balances from the confirmed continuity, not keyword sums
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Continuity schedule built in Excel

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Openings, movements, transfers and interest pre-filled: clicks only

  • Prior-Year Comparatives

    0.5 h → 0.1 h

    Last year’s statements, read in.

    On a first engagement, the prior-year column is read from last year’s statements and confirmed line by line; after that it carries forward.

    • AI reads last year’s statements and proposes lines
    • Confirm each line or all at once; add any by hand
    • Only confirmed lines print, signed by their normal side
    • A total prints only when every line under it is complete
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Last year’s statements re-keyed

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Last year's statements read in; the CPA confirms each line

Classify & plan testing7 screens · 2.4 h → 0.5 h

Accounts classified and mapped once, remembered by your firm; controls pre-filled.

  • Confirm Chart of Accounts

    0.3 h → 0.05 h

    Every account’s side, confirmed once.

    A deterministic guess of each account’s debit or credit side and type, confirmed by the CPA — name first, because numbering is not standard.

    • Only accounts worth a look are highlighted
    • Rules that understand condo names (accumulated amortization, transfers, deposits)
    • Confirm all unflagged in one click
    • Remember for the firm: never classify the same account twice
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Each account classified in a mapping template

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Auto-classified; confirm all unflagged in one click

  • Map Accounts

    0.5 h → 0.05 h

    The firm’s learning loop.

    Any account the statements cannot place is mapped to a statement line — and can be remembered for every future engagement.

    • Unplaced accounts listed with a statement-line choice
    • AI suggests; the CPA decides
    • Remember as a firm rule — maps automatically next time
    • The same list the statements use, so they never disagree
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Each account mapped to a statement line in the template

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Province rules plus the firm’s remembered choices

  • Expense Classification

    0.2 h → 0.02 h

    Townhome, apartment or shared.

    Where costs are allocated between unit types, each expense account is classified — defaulting to shared.

    • Townhome · apartment · shared, per account
    • Auto-tagged during processing; the CPA confirms
    • Expenses chosen by name, not number range
    • Only needed when the split applies
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Each account classified individually

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Sensible defaults; split by unit type only when needed

  • Budget

    0.3 h → 0.05 h

    Budget read, variances surfaced.

    The board-approved budget read automatically and compared with actual results.

    • Read and re-read from the budget document
    • Confirm all, or line by line; add lines by hand
    • Over-budget lines surfaced against the firm’s threshold
    • Feeds expected owner fees for the Revenue Grid
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Budget re-keyed from the approved PDF

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Read from the budget document; CPA confirms

  • Internal Controls

    0.4 h → 0.1 h

    The assessment that sets severity.

    Two assessment questions and a COSO summary across five components — the recorded judgment that drives how seriously findings are treated.

    • Board controls and sign-off; small or one-person operation
    • COSO: environment, risk, activities, information, monitoring
    • Pre-filled from the firm’s library; recorded by a person
    • Drives flag severity downstream
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Controls questionnaire filled in each year

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Pre-filled from the firm library

  • Controls Overview (8.1)

    0.3 h → 0.1 h

    Seventeen risk factors, COSO-aligned.

    The financial-statement-level controls paper: seventeen risk factors, each with control procedures, audit implications and the responsible party.

    • Control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information, monitoring
    • Five staffing inquiries
    • Outstanding risk factors summarized per component
    • Pre-filled from the firm’s library; sign-off
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Controls template filled in

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Pre-filled from the firm library

  • Control Cycles (8.2 – 8.5)

    0.4 h → 0.1 h

    Four cycles, walked through.

    Revenue, purchases, payroll and financial reporting: design, in use, a cradle-to-grave walkthrough and a conclusion for each.

    • Design adequate? In place and in use? per risk factor
    • One transaction traced end to end
    • Rely on controls, or go substantive
    • Feeds the deficiency register and the governance letter
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Four cycle templates filled in

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Pre-filled from the firm library

Do the testing5 screens · 3.0 h → 0.5 h

A sample on your rules, invoices matched, every journal scanned, every owner’s fees tested.

  • Sample

    0.4 h → 0.05 h

    Deterministic. Never AI.

    The expense sample, selected on the firm’s own rules — every item showing why it was chosen.

    • Top and bottom bands, a year-end cut-off slice, all repairs over the flag
    • 100% when the population is small
    • CPA can drop or add items; additions are marked
    • Approval creates the invoice requests on the client portal
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Sample picked in Excel

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Materiality-based sample generated on the firm’s own settings

  • Invoice ↔ GL

    1.0 h → 0.2 h

    The system checks. The person concludes.

    Each sampled invoice read and tested against the ledger and the purchases attribute checklist.

    • Vendor, total, date and number read from the invoice
    • Attributes A–D checked from the evidence; E always the CPA’s
    • Unrecorded invoices proposed as entries
    • Accept, or flag with a reason and amount
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Each sampled invoice opened and compared

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Invoices read and matched to the ledger; unrecorded invoices proposed

  • Journal-Entry Testing (CAS 240)

    0.4 h → 0.1 h

    Every journal, scanned.

    Every journal entry scanned against fraud-risk criteria — surfacing candidates, never conclusions.

    • Round amounts, period-end and weekend postings, missing references
    • Amounts at or above materiality
    • Plain-language explanation of each criterion
    • Selected entries copied into the reporting worksheet
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Filters rebuilt in Excel for each engagement

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Fraud-risk tests (CAS 240) run automatically

  • Confirmations (CAS 505)

    0.4 h → 0.1 h

    The external confirmations register.

    Bank, investment, receivable, payable, loan and legal confirmations — set up from the trial balance and tracked to their result.

    • Kind, recipient and amount per our records
    • Not sent · sent · returned · exception
    • Confirmed amount and any difference
    • Alternate procedures when not confirmed (CAS 505.12)
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Letters and amounts prepared one by one

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Standard confirmations set up from the trial balance

  • Revenue Grid

    0.8 h → 0.1 h

    Every unit. Every month.

    Owner fees tested for every unit, every month, against each unit’s own declared fee — 600 tests for a 50-unit corporation.

    • Units down, months across, one cell per unit-month
    • Short, over or OK — deterministic
    • Expected fees from the approved budget
    • A note drafted from each finding
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    A sample of units checked in a workbook

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Owner fees tested unit by unit, month by month; notes drafted

Assemble & judge3 screens · 1.5 h → 0.4 h

Leadsheets pre-filled with evidence; the facts every document needs.

  • Working Papers

    0.8 h → 0.2 h

    Eighteen leadsheets, pre-filled.

    The leadsheets for every audit area, with figures from the trial balance and procedures pre-filled from the firm’s library — evidence filled where the engine proved it.

    • Cash, investments, receivables, capital assets, payables, reserves, revenue, payroll, expenses
    • Header figures rolled up from the trial balance
    • Tickmarks with meanings and notes
    • Prepared, reviewed and approved sign-offs
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Each procedure written up in the template

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Pre-filled from the firm library; evidence filled where proven

  • Judgment Checklist

    0.3 h → 0.1 h

    The calls only a person can make.

    Seven condo-specific judgment areas and 62 questions — plus the management-fee check against the contract.

    • Board authorization of expenditures — repairs versus capital
    • Related parties, legal matters, reserve compliance, revenue, payroll
    • Management fee: agreed versus charged, exactly
    • Payroll reconciliation: ledger, wages and T4
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Checklist completed from scratch

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Facts pre-filled; the CPA judges

  • Report Facts

    0.4 h → 0.1 h

    The facts every document needs.

    The dates and statutory facts the documents and province checks depend on — only the fields the jurisdiction requires.

    • Whether the firm audited last year (drives takeover and comparatives)
    • BC depreciation report; Ontario reserve study date and class
    • Read from the documents where possible; the CPA confirms
    • Save and re-run the province checks
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Facts re-keyed into the report templates

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Statutory and reserve-study facts read from the documents

Review & decide9 screens · 1.9 h → 0.5 h

Findings, questions, reviews, the opinion, eleven documents and the close.

  • Flags

    0.3 h → 0.1 h

    Every finding, triaged.

    Everything the engine raised, with materiality in view — resolved, excepted, escalated or sent to the client by a person.

    • Overall, performance and clearly-trivial materiality at the top
    • Resolve, except, escalate or ask client — each with a note
    • Identical findings resolved together
    • History kept when a re-run raises an issue again
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    The reviewer’s own list of points

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Raised by the engine; resolved in bulk where identical

  • Client Questions

    0.2 h → 0.05 h

    Nothing reaches the client unapproved.

    Questions to the client, drafted and approved in the platform, with the answers kept on record.

    • New question, drafted or written
    • Sent and answered, in one thread
    • Reply-to is the signed-in CPA
    • Never sent automatically
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Email back-and-forth

    With Condo Audit Pro

    In-app questions with an approval step and a permanent record

  • File Review

    0.2 h → 0.1 h

    Senior and partner sign-off.

    The two final reviews — the senior’s (4.2) and the partner’s (4.1) — which clear the first two close gates.

    • Senior review, WP 4.2
    • Practitioner or partner review, WP 4.1
    • Confirms when close gates 1 and 2 are met
    • Human sign-offs only
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Reviewer tick-marks and review notes

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Structured senior and partner review

  • Opinion

    0.1 h → 0.1 h

    The CPA decides.

    The opinion type, the basis for any modification, and emphasis-of-matter or other-matter paragraphs — feeding the auditor’s report.

    • Unmodified, qualified, adverse or disclaimer
    • The correct CAS 705 heading for each
    • Emphasis of matter and other matter (CAS 706)
    • Flows straight into the generated report
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    The CPA decides

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Kept manual by design

  • Deficiency Register

    0.2 h → 0.05 h

    Drafted from what the audit found.

    Significant deficiencies and other key matters, drafted from the audit’s own findings, for the CPA to review.

    • Title, detail, effects, recommendation, management’s response
    • Suggested from recorded facts — with the evidence
    • Draft from findings in one click
    • Feeds the significant deficiencies letter
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Written up from the reviewer’s notes

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Deficiencies drafted from what the audit found; the CPA reviews

  • Reports

    0.6 h → 0.1 h

    Eleven documents, generated.

    Every audit document in the province’s wording, with the firm’s letterhead — reworded per engagement if needed.

    • Auditor’s report, statements, letters and close summary
    • Edit wording per engagement without touching the firm template
    • Representation letter generated to sign, then uploaded signed
    • Close summary drafted from the audit — no AI
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Word templates edited for each client

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Eleven documents generated, filled and formatted; wording editable per engagement

  • Carry-Forward

    0.1 h → 0.02 h

    Next year starts here.

    Notes for next year’s audit — difficulties, improvements and upcoming matters — with closing fund balances staged as next year’s openings.

    • Difficulties encountered
    • Process improvements
    • Upcoming matters, drafted from findings
    • Closing fund balances staged automatically
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Notes kept in a separate document

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Drafted from findings; rolls into next year

  • Close

    No preparation

    Only a CPA can close.

    Fifteen gates, enforced by the database — a staff close attempt is refused at the data layer, not just hidden.

    • Reviews, client approvals, representation letter, release authorization
    • Gates 14 and 15 clear only when findings and questions are resolved
    • The trial balance must foot after adjustments
    • The report, statements and signed letter must exist
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    Sign-off

    With Condo Audit Pro

    Only a CPA can close — enforced by the database

  • Final Package

    0.2 h → 0.02 h

    Sealed, and delivered.

    The completed, signed package — sealed and made available to the client’s portal.

    • Open → closed, finalizing → sealed, ready
    • Package record and contents
    • Download, or delivered to the client portal
    • Completes the round trip from the first upload
    Today · Excel & audit templates

    PDFs combined and assembled manually

    With Condo Audit Pro

    One complete package, delivered to the client

Technology Prepares. The CPA Decides.

Across all eighteen stages, the platform organizes, compares, and proposes — and that is all it ever does. It never approves a sample, resolves a flag, signs a report, sends a question to a client, or closes a file. Every one of those is a person’s decision, enforced by the platform. A tool that quietly concluded for you is one no auditor could trust. This one stops at the professional line and shows you exactly where it stopped.

How a Document Becomes Audit Data

Half the platform is stations on this one journey — from a client’s upload to structured, tested numbers. Nothing is ever silently accepted, and nothing is ever silently thrown away.

1. Uploaded & stored safely

The client drags files into clearly named boxes — ledger, bank statements, budget, invoices, minutes. Each file goes into private, access-logged cloud storage with a record of who uploaded what, and when. Nothing is emailed around.

2. Checked it is what it claims to be

Before trusting a file, the platform scores its contents against known fingerprints for each document type. A budget dropped into the bank-statements box gets flagged for a person — never silently accepted.

3. Read by the right method

Spreadsheets, CSVs, digital PDFs, scans, and photos are each read with the appropriate extraction method, in the background. Every extracted value is labelled by its source and trust level.

4. Unreadable files stay visible

A file that can’t be read does not vanish. It shows a failed status with a re-run button, right where the team is already working — and it can’t pass verification until a person deals with it.

5. Confirmed by a person

Extracted data becomes audit data only after human confirmation. And once a person has confirmed a value, no automated re-run can ever overwrite it.

6. Every number has a history

Source document, uploader, extraction method, confirmation, adjustments, sign-offs, versions — the trail behind every figure is recorded, ready for any reviewer who asks “where did this come from?”

What Happens Automatically vs. What the CPA Decides

The platform prepares the file. Every judgment stays with the licensed CPA.

Prepared by the platform

Your team spends less time assembling files and more time on professional judgment. The preparation — document intake, fund-aware ledger matching, reproducible sampling, invoice comparison, flags, and a province-correct draft package — is done before the CPA opens the file.

Decided by the CPA

Materiality judgment, sample approval, flag resolution, client-question approval, audit conclusion, report signing, and file close.

Deterministic by Design: Every Figure Reproducible and Traceable

An audit has to be re-performable: a reviewer, an inspector or next year’s auditor must be able to repeat a step and reach the same answer. So wherever the answer is arithmetic or a rule, the platform applies deterministic rules — not a language model.

Rule-based and reproducible

Matching, footing and tying; sampling; testing every owner’s fees, unit by unit and month by month; fund continuity and the cash-flow statement; proposed adjusting entries; journal-entry tests; the close gates; and every generated document. The same inputs give the same result, every figure traces back to its source, and a rule can never invent a number.

AI-assisted drafting, under the CPA’s control

Reading documents that have no fixed layout, drafting explanations and wording, and suggesting mappings for a person to accept. Always labelled, capped per audit — and it never concludes, signs, closes or records an adjustment.

The Detailed Condominium & Strata Audit Workflow

Behind those four steps are eighteen structured stages of condominium and strata audit preparation. The platform prepares and proposes — it never approves, signs, sends, or closes. Even the sample it selects waits for the CPA’s approval.

Stage1
Your CPA Firm

Getting started

Your CPA accepts the engagement, confirms independence, and sends an engagement letter for the board to sign. Nothing begins until acceptance and independence are both complete.

Stage2
Your CPA Firm

Your account is created

The firm sets up your corporation and sends you a secure invite by email.

Stage3
You

Set up & upload

You confirm your details, agree to the privacy terms, and upload your documents against a checklist that adapts to your corporation.

Stage4
The Platform

Automatic first check

The moment a file lands it’s checked for the right type and readability. Anything off is flagged for a person — it only assists, never decides.

Stage5
Your CPA & Team

A person verifies everything

A team member confirms every required document is present, legible, and for the right year. The audit can’t move on until that’s done.

Stage6
Your CPA & Team

Processing begins

A person presses “Begin Processing.” It’s never automatic, and it’s blocked until acceptance, independence, and documents are all cleared.

Stage7
The Platform

Your numbers, organized

Your figures are read from your files and laid out in one place, following rules set by licensed CPAs. Your originals are never changed and every version is kept.

Stage8
Platform + Your CPA

Books checked against evidence

Your ledger is compared to its supporting documents, with operating and reserve funds kept apart. Anything that doesn’t line up is flagged, and one clean trial balance is produced.

Stage9
The Platform

Sample prepared using firm rules

The system prepares the testing selection using the CPA firm’s configured sampling rules — reproducible, never decided by AI. The CPA reviews and approves before anything is requested from the client.

Stage10
Your CPA & You

CPA approves, invoices requested

Your CPA approves the selection, then you’re asked for the original invoices for just those items.

Stage11
You

You upload the invoices

You upload the requested invoices right in the portal.

Stage12
Platform + Your CPA

Invoices examined

Each invoice is checked against the books and the right details. The system suggests notes; your CPA reviews everything.

Stage13
Your CPA & Team

Every flag reviewed

A person looks at each flagged item and decides: clear with a note, ask you a question, or record it. Nothing clears automatically.

Stage14
Your CPA & You

CPA-approved questions sent to client

Questions can be drafted from flags, but nothing is sent until the CPA approves. Once sent, the client replies inside the portal and the answer stays attached to the audit file.

Stage15
The Platform

Quiet background notes

Patterns are noted to help next year’s audit run smoother — carried forward as a record, written by people, not AI.

Stage16
Your CPA & Team

Re-run or continue

If you fix something, checks can re-run on the corrected data. Resolved items never silently reopen; every version is kept.

Stage17
Your CPA & Team

Final review

The team completes the senior review, then the CPA completes the practitioner review, and all closing conditions are checked.

Stage18
Your CPA

Audit close

Only the CPA can close. A summary is produced for you and the board, the file is locked into a final package, and your download is released.

A Province-Correct Draft Package, Ready to Review and Sign

At the end of preparation, the platform assembles the full condominium or strata audit file in the right wording for the province — with only the professional-judgment fields left open for the CPA. The boilerplate is done; the judgment stays yours.

Financial statements

Restricted-fund statements with operating and reserve funds kept apart, and shared costs allocated the way a condominium or strata corporation reports them.

Independent auditor’s report

Assembled in the correct standard and wording for the province, ready for the CPA’s review and signature.

Planning & materiality letter

Engagement scope, materiality, and significant risks laid out for the CPA to finalize.

Representation & legal letters

Management representation and the legal inquiry letter, drafted against the right provincial references.

Communications to those charged with governance

A clean record of what must be communicated to the board, mapped to the working-paper references.

Adjustments & deficiencies

A place for adjusting entries and any significant deficiencies — left for the CPA to conclude, never pre-filled.

See the whole workflow on a real file.

We’ll walk your firm through a condominium or strata audit, end to end.

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