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Legal and accounting · Software for chartered accountant firms

Manage due dates, documents, staff time and fees across your practice.

Chartered accountant firms run indirect tax, withholding, income tax, company filings and audit work on accounting software, government portals and a spreadsheet tracker, with client documents arriving by chat and email. The practice layer adds jobs by due date, document requests with counted reminders, staff time against fees and a partner view of what is stuck and why.

At a glance

Your firm files sales tax returns every month, withholding returns every quarter, income tax returns and tax audits every year, and company registry filings and statutory audits in between. The calendar rarely empties.

The filing tools themselves work well. Knowing which client is stuck, on what and for how long is harder, because each person keeps a private tracker.

How the work runs today

Before each due date, staff message clients for sales registers, purchase bills, bank statements and salary tax certificates. Documents return by chat, email and memory stick, and are saved in folders by client and month.

Articled assistants prepare returns in your ledger software or tax software and file on the sales tax, income tax and company registry portals. A partner reviews the larger ones. The acknowledgement and the payment receipt are saved somewhere, and status lives in a shared spreadsheet updated by whoever remembers.

Audits bring working papers, confirmations and partner sign-off numbers. Billing is per return, per assignment or on retainer, and collection often waits until the season ends.

Where it breaks

What goes wrong for chartered accountant firms without a proper system.

Clients send documents late

Each reminder is typed by a person. Clients who ignore the first are chased again close to the deadline. Little time is left for review.

The tracker is out of date

Several people update it at different times, so a partner cannot rely on it at a glance.

The filed copy cannot be found

A notice arrives on a return filed eighteen months ago. The acknowledgement, the filed copy and the payment receipt are in three places. An article spends a morning on it. The reply waits on him.

Who is working on what is unclear

An article’s week goes to whoever asks first, and the hours spent are not recorded against the fee. Overload is invisible until it is late.

Fees are billed late

A notice reply or revised return is done during the rush. When invoices go out, it may not be remembered. Collection slips as well.

What the software does

What we would build for chartered accountant firms.

Named the way your team already talks about the work. We start with whichever part the audit shows is costing you most.

Client masters and fee terms

Hold each client’s constitution, tax numbers, registrations, group and the partner who owns the relationship, with the fee agreed as a retainer, per filing or per assignment.

Compliance calendar by client

Raise every return, company registry filing and audit for the year on your firm’s due-date rules. Each job carries a preparer, a reviewer and a status, so a partner sees what is stuck and why.

Document request portal

Let clients see what is needed and upload against it, with each reminder counted until the item arrives. Questions back to the client stay on the job.

Acknowledgements and filed copies

Keep the acknowledgement number, the filed return and the payment receipt on the job that produced them.

Notices and representations

Record sales tax, income tax and company registry notices with the date received, the reply due date and the person handling each, with the reply attached.

Staff timesheets

Log time by client and job, so next year’s fee is set from evidence.

Billing and recovery

Raise invoices from jobs marked done, including one-off work, and see what each client still owes, oldest bills first.

Before you talk to a supplier

A requirements checklist for chartered accountant firms.

What to cover, which reports to ask for and what to put to every vendor, ready to print or save as a PDF.

Open the checklist
Connections

Tools chartered accountant firms often connect.

How it works

How the work runs from Bengaluru for your city.

  1. 1

    The audit, by call

    A screen-share and a look at the sheets, accounting reports and WhatsApp groups your team uses. No travel needed.

  2. 2

    A written proposal

    Scope, what we build first and the cost, agreed in writing before anything starts.

  3. 3

    Build in short rounds

    Working screens shared every few weeks. Your team tests them from your own office.

  4. 4

    Go-live, in person when it helps

    For data migration and training we can come to your city. Travel is agreed in advance.

  5. 5

    Support online

    Fixes, changes and hosting handled remotely by the same team that built it.

Common questions

Questions chartered accountant firms ask before they call.

Does it replace our accounting or tax software?

No. Nothing is filed from here. You keep filing on the portals with the software you trust, and this records what was filed and keeps the proof.

Is there a sign-off number log or a digital signature register?

No. There is no field for a professional sign-off number and no digital signature certificate register. The job holds the acknowledgement number, the filed copy and the payment receipt. Either register would be separate work.

Who can see a client’s papers?

The staff on that client’s jobs, and the partners. Access rules are set during implementation, and an article’s login is withdrawn when their term ends.

Is there a ready practice management tool we should use?

A few exist for accountancy practices and are decent. A single practitioner with twenty clients should stay on a spreadsheet. Custom work suits firms whose partner reporting or client portal does not fit those screens.

How is a practice with many clients quoted?

Partners and staff who log in, the client masters and fee terms that move over, and the portals or ledger tools to connect all count. The compliance calendar and the document request portal each carry a line, set after both have been shown with your client list.

What should a firm gather before we begin?

Bring the client list with fee terms, the shared status spreadsheet, a sample document request, filed acknowledgements and a recent notice file. Timesheets from articled staff help. Name a partner and a manager who can check screens.

What happens to filed copies and client masters if the firm exits the system?

The firm keeps its client masters, fee terms, filings and notice files. Any of them leave as spreadsheets or documents on request. The practice holds the code itself. Authors of the screens remain on call for repairs.

What happens after I share my requirements?

An engineer reads what you send and replies within one business day. We then look at the software, spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups your business runs on today and write down what works, what slows your team down and what is missing. A demo login, a screen-share or a few screenshots are enough. You get a short written summary ordered by priority, with no obligation to hire us afterwards.

How much will the software cost?

We don’t publish a price, because it depends on what the system has to do. That first review settles the scope, and the cost goes into a written proposal before any work starts.

In Bengaluru

Bengaluru areas with many chartered accountant firms.

Across India

Cities where chartered accountant firms are common.

Category

Part of these wider groups.

Talk to us

Tell us how your business runs today.

A few lines on your spreadsheets, software and WhatsApp groups is enough. We reply the same working day.

What happens after you share your requirements

  1. A senior engineer reads your answers. Nobody phones first.
  2. Within one business day you get a written note: what we understood, what we would start with, and the questions we still have.
  3. If it fits, a proposal follows with the order of work, what we need from you and what you receive at each step.
  4. No call is booked and nothing is paid until you have read the note. Your details stay with us.

Start with your requirements

Seven short steps that tell us what you need. A senior engineer reads them before anyone gets in touch.

Share your requirements