The whole ledger, analysed on your own machine.

Three setup steps, then every analysis the ledger can answer, run at once and filed by audit area. Open any figure to its entries, test the client's documents against the ledger, and export the working papers to Excel. A Windows application; nothing is uploaded.

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The home page of an engagement in Audit Scoot, on the demo engagement: the year's 29,974 journal entries counted against ten risk signals — manual journals, weekends, entries after the year end, round amounts and more — then the analyses by area, each with what it found: clean, to watch, or a number of exceptions.
The engagement's home after "Run all analyses": the year's entries by risk signal, then every analysis by area with what it found.

Set up once. Three steps.

The application's own steps, in its order. For a recurring client, "Start next year" carries last year's columns, accounts and materiality across, and setup goes straight to the analyses.

  1. Import

    One ledger file per period, .xlsx or .csv — only the current year is required; last year's adds the comparatives. Name the engagement, its client, country and year end: the country picks the chart of accounts, the year end is the date every cut-off test measures against.

  2. Columns & accounts

    Say which column holds each field — the import recognises 10 accounting-system layouts and says which it read — then put every account on a statement caption, at four levels. Suggestions come with a confidence; what cannot be placed is counted as to review.

  3. Materiality

    Overall and performance materiality, tolerable misstatement and the clearly trivial threshold, argued from the ledger's own benchmark. Every analysis that carries a threshold binds these figures.

Every account on a statement caption.

The balance sheet, the income statement and every benchmark are built from the account classification, so an account left unmapped would drop out of all of them. Audit Scoot reads the chart of accounts of the engagement's country — 34 of them, from the Plan Comptable Général to SKR 03 — suggests a caption for each account with a confidence, and counts what it cannot place as to review. Save the classification as a template for the next client on the same accounting system.

Columns and accounts in Audit Scoot: 26 of 26 columns assigned, 82 of 83 accounts classified with 1 to review, and each account assigned four levels — BS, Assets, Fixed Assets, Tangible Assets — with its row count and suggestion confidence.

Twelve areas, every analysis run at once.

"Run all analyses" runs every worksheet the ledger and the loaded documents can answer and says, on the home page and in each area, what each one found: clean, to watch, or a number of exceptions. A test that could not fire on this ledger says "Not applicable" with the reason, not "Clean".

Each area — from planning and journal entries to completion — lists its key analyses first, opens a worksheet beside the list, and exports on its own. Every worksheet states the population it tested, draws the chart where one helps, and opens the Explorer on any row that names an account, a caption, a user or a journal.

The 132 analyses, by area
The Revenue and receivables area in Audit Scoot: its key analyses and more analyses with what each found, the documents the area reads, and the AR Aging worksheet open beside the list with the population it tested.

The client's documents, agreed to the ledger.

67 analyses test a population the ledger does not hold: the fixed-asset register, the aged debtors, the bank statements, the payroll register, the lease schedule. Load the client's export on the Documents page and it is agreed to the ledger balance it must match before any analysis reads it — the difference shown beside it — and the analyses waiting for it run.

The 63 documents, and where clients export them
The Documents page of Audit Scoot: documents loaded, analyses fed and documents agreeing to the ledger; the trial balances; and the fixed-asset register loaded with its ledger check against the cost of assets held at year end.

Journal entries selected by your criteria.

Choose the characteristics of the entries to select — manual, weekend or holiday, approved by their own preparer, no approver, entered after the year end, posted to a seldom-used account, just under the approval limit — and narrow by dates, journal types, preparers, value against tolerable error, narrative words or account pairs. Each box says how many entries it holds on its own as you tick it. The criteria are written on the worksheet, as AS 2401 and ISA 240 ask, and saved sets apply to every engagement.

Journal entry testing in Audit Scoot
Journal-entry test criteria in Audit Scoot: manual journals approved by their own preparer selected, 181 entries and 366 lines, listed with their journal number, dates, preparer, approver, account, caption and description.

From any figure to its entries.

The Explorer pivots the ledger by caption, account, month, journal type or user and keeps going down — to the lines and the whole journal. Profile any slice for its risk signals, Benford's first digits and who posts when; see where its money moved; draw a monetary-unit or random sample that a reviewer can draw again.

Inside the Explorer
Table
The ledger by any two dimensions, this year against last, with a materiality band
Profile
Risk signals, value bands, months, weekdays, users, offset accounts, first digits
Flows
Where the money moved, caption to caption, new flows in amber
Sample
Monetary unit, random or above a threshold, seeded and kept in the working papers

Ask for an analysis in plain English.

When the catalogue does not hold the test you have in mind, describe it — or start from the question suggested for each area. Google's Gemini model writes the SQL from your question and a profile of the columns, never a ledger row; the application validates it, runs it locally, read-only, and returns a worksheet with a chart. Follow up to narrow or regroup it. Every analysis it builds is kept with the engagement, so it can be re-performed on the ledger without asking the model again, and your firm's IT can turn the assistant off.

Exactly what the assistant sends
Ask AI in Audit Scoot: the request box with a suggested question about sales invoiced in the last ten days of the year and credited in the next month, a suggested question for each of the twelve areas, the Generate button and the list of kept AI analyses.

Working papers in one workbook.

"Export to Excel" writes every analysis that ran into one indexed workbook. Its index prints each source file with its SHA-256 fingerprint and the ledger's control totals — lines, entries, debits and credits — then lists every tab by its reference, filed under its area's letter as the application files it: A-01, B-01, C-01. Each tab states what it tested, and the Explorer views and samples you kept follow under EX-001 onward.

The engagement itself is one .auditscoot file holding its periods, mapping, classification, materiality and an audit trail of its changes, each under the Windows account that made it — kept wherever your firm keeps working papers.

  1. 00Index — sources, SHA-256, control totals
  2. A-01Materiality
  3. B-01Risk Cockpit
  4. C-01Revenue Cutoff
  5. F-01FA Rollforward
  6. EX-001Sample, Revenue
InputThe general ledger, .xlsx / .csv, one file per period; the client's trial balances; client documents as Excel, CSV or PDF
Recognised layoutsXero Account Transactions report, Xero General Ledger export, QuickBooks General Ledger report, Sage 50 Nominal Activity report, NetSuite General Ledger search, Business Central General Ledger Entries, SAP line items (FBL3N), French FEC, DATEV export, Exact Online export
OutputExcel worksheets, one indexed Excel workbook per engagement or area, the .auditscoot engagement file
InstallationPer user — no admin rights needed
InternetNot required — no network connection by default; only the optional AI analysis goes online

System requirements

ComponentMinimumRecommended
Operating systemWindows 10 64-bit (version 1809 or newer)Windows 11 64-bit
Processorx64, dual-corex64, quad-core
Memory8 GB RAM16 GB RAM
Disk~1 GB free (app ≈ 300–400 MB) plus room for engagement filesSSD, 2 GB+ free
Display1366 × 7681920 × 1080

16 GB is recommended because the ledger is analysed in memory: the largest engagements use the most.

What the application does and does not do.

What does Audit Scoot actually test?
132 analyses in 12 audit areas — Planning & analytics, Journal entries, Revenue & receivables, Purchases & payables, Inventory, Fixed assets & leases, Cash & financing, Payroll, Tax, Equity & legal, IT controls, Completion. 65 run on the general ledger alone; the others test a client document loaded beside it, such as the fixed-asset register or the bank statements. Each is listed with its objective, what it checks and the data it reads on the Analyses pages.
Do we need access to the client's system?
No. Everything is read from exports: the general ledger in .xlsx or .csv, the client's trial balance, and for the analyses that test them, the client's own registers and listings — 63 kinds, each with where the client finds it in Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, NetSuite or Business Central.
How large a ledger can it handle?
The whole population is loaded as one, not split into Excel-sized pieces, and analysed in memory on the auditor's machine — the reason 16 GB of RAM is recommended. The application is tested on ledgers of one to two million lines; the exact capacity for your largest engagements is confirmed on the demo.
Can we run a test that is not in the catalogue?
Yes, with the optional assistant. On the Ask AI page, describe what you want to see in plain English — or start from the question suggested for each area. Gemini writes the SQL from your question and a profile of the columns, never the ledger rows; the application validates it, runs it locally and returns a worksheet with a chart, which you can refine with follow-up questions, export, and re-perform later without asking the model again.
What does it produce for the audit file?
Each worksheet exports to Excel, and "Export to Excel" on the home page writes every analysis that ran into one indexed workbook: an index of the source files with their SHA-256 fingerprints and the ledger's control totals, then one tab per worksheet, filed by area letter (C-01, C-02…), each stating what it tested. Explorer views and samples kept in the working papers follow as their own tabs.
Does it manage the audit file — sign-offs, review notes, client requests?
No. Audit Scoot is an analysis tool: it produces the analysis and its evidence, and leaves sign-off, review and the audit file to the methodology tool your firm already uses. The engagement itself is one .auditscoot file — periods, mapping, classification, materiality and an audit trail of changes — kept wherever your firm keeps working papers.
What are the system requirements?
Windows 10 (64-bit, version 1809 or newer) or Windows 11, on an x64 PC with at least 8 GB of RAM — 16 GB is recommended for large ledgers, which are analysed in memory. It installs per user without admin rights, and needs no internet connection except for the optional AI-assisted analysis. Minimum and recommended specifications are listed on this page.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Import, analysis, the Explorer and the export all run on the machine with no internet connection; by default the application makes no network connection at all. Only the optional assistant goes online, when a user asks it a question — what it sends is set out on the Security page.

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