Who can use this feature
Roles: Owner, Admin, Staff and an option in custom roles
Plans: Available with the AI Data review add-on or included on Scale
About Review
Review is one of Syft's add-on features. It is dedicated to reviewing your data for errors or fraud before you start analyzing it or reporting on it. Review is used to monitor your data quality by identifying anomalies or errors and cleaning up the data before reporting on it. It empowers you to identify mistakes before they become problems with real-time machine-learning analysis across all accounts and transactions.
Navigate to the "Review" tab and click expand to explore the six sub-tabs that Review is comprised of, which are:
Data Quality
Bank
Accounts
Transactions
GST/VAT
Clarify
Review can also help you correct any errors you may have made in terms of classifying accounts or transactions to assist in ensuring that your financial statements are a fair representation of your performance and that you are making financial decisions based on accurate financial information.
🛠️ Use case
Using Syft’s intelligent software to detect potential anomalies in your accounts and transactions can flag cases in which you may be accidentally paying tax on something that’s not taxable, potentially saving you a lot of money.
Data Quality and Bank
You can keep tabs on the quality of data connected to Syft with Data Quality and identify unreconciled transactions in your bank accounts. Learn more here.
Accounts
Accounts is the place to review data quality issues relating to specific general ledger accounts. These include potential duplicate accounts and dormancies. You can also track your suspense accounts, check where there are inverted balances and lastly, inspect where there is abnormal activity within certain accounts. This is a rich feature set that provides you with great insight into the health of your chart of accounts and transactions within those accounts.
💡 Pro tip
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Contacts
We’ve built an entire section with Syft’s Review Tool that enables you to ensure you do not have mistakes or errors within your Contacts, which are your customers and suppliers. These are important aspects of your business or your client’s business and it is essential to ensure accuracy, both from a data quality perspective and potential fraud perspective.
Our tool will help you identify duplicate contacts, dormant contacts that you can archive, overdue and negative balances, and, lastly, multi-assigned contacts. These are contacts with transactions in accounts that are not their default accounts or do not have the expected tax codes.
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Transactions
The transactions section identifies potential duplicate transactions, anomalies in terms of transaction, description,or value, unusual timing in the posting of transactions, and manual transactions.
GST/VAT Review
Syft's "VAT/GST Review" feature aims to help users ensure accurate tax claims and identify anomalous transactions. Three key reports are generated within VAT/GST Review: "Overview", "Accounts" and "Differences". These reports categorize and quantify potentially anomalous transactions into Input VAT/GST (purchases) and Output VAT/GST (sales), providing detailed insights and analysis capabilities.
The "Overview" report tracks current VAT/GST due or claimable, while the "Accounts" report identifies transactions with different tax codes from the default, helping users correct errors and optimize tax calculations. The "Differences" report identifies zero VAT/GST transactions in non-zero VAT/GST accounts, facilitating the detection and resolution of discrepancies in tax reporting.
GST/VAT Reports
Syft's "VAT/GST Reports" feature is aimed at identifying potential errors in VAT/GST data. It includes six different reports: VAT/GST by account, by code, by source, by currency, by value, and by transaction, each offering detailed insights and analysis capabilities. You can drill down into transactions, filter data, and export reports to assess VAT/GST movements over multiple periods, ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance.
🤖 AI meets accountancy
With the enormous amounts of data needing to be processed, when given correct data, AI tools are generally good at maintaining accuracy and minimizing the risk of costly mistakes in financial reporting. These tools can also identify trends and anomalies that might go unnoticed by a person. That is why Syft’s Review tool uses AI to automate these tasks by helping you identify anomalous accounts and transactions, pinpoint suspicious activity, maintain data integrity, and prevent fraud across all your entities.
This ability to extract actionable insights from large data sets is critical in making informed financial decisions for a business. AI’s ability to handle increasing volumes of data will help scale your data processing and financial insights as your business grows.
Read more about how to keep up with AI as an accountant here.