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Move your books at a date you choose, with the opening figures proved against the file you brought rather than typed in and hoped for. Below: how the move works, what to export from the system you are on, and an honest comparison — including what we do not do yet.
How the move works
Step 1
Bring the trial balance, and see it proved
Export the trial balance at your changeover date as CSV. We read the account name or code and either the debit and credit columns or one signed balance, propose a mapping onto the Irish chart, and post the opening entries. Nothing is written until the mapping is yours, and the import is reconciled to the cent against your own file — a difference is shown, never absorbed.
Step 2
Contacts, with their details
Customers and suppliers from the same export: name, address, VAT number, terms and the bank details a payment file needs. The rows that could not be read are listed with their line numbers rather than dropped silently.
Step 3
Open items and the bank
The unpaid sales and purchase invoices at the changeover date come in as brought-forward items, and their total has to agree with the debtors and creditors control accounts in the trial balance. The bank opening balance is checked against your statements in the days around the date, so the first reconciliation starts from a figure somebody has proved.
Step 4
What Revenue already has
A Form 11 you filed through Revenue Online Service can be read in beside the working paper, so the year you are moving from is compared rather than retyped. Filed figures never overwrite computed ones.
What to export, by system
- Sage 50
- Nominal activity or trial balance as CSV; aged debtors and creditors for the open items; customer and supplier lists. The item types (SI, SC, PI, PC) are understood, and credits are taken as credits.
- Sage Accounting
- Trial balance export, aged debtors and creditors with the reference and outstanding columns, and the contact lists.
- Xero
- Trial balance, the aged receivables and payables detail reports, and contacts. Invoice number and amount due are read from those reports' own column names.
- QuickBooks Online
- Trial balance, open invoices and unpaid bills, and the customer and supplier lists. An unnamed first column is read as the account column, as those reports export it.
- Big Red Cloud, Relate, a spreadsheet
- Any CSV with an account name or code and amounts. Choose “Another system or a spreadsheet” and the common column names are tried; what cannot be read is listed line by line.
Where we go further
Each row names the products whose own pages were read, and the date they were read. Nothing here is claimed for a capability that is not finished and tested in our own record.
Books and bank
SEPA supplier payment files
pain.001.001.09 batch from open bills, character-set transliteration, IBAN confirmation before inclusion, a file and never a payment.
- BrightBooks — “SEPA Payments (Enterprise tier)” · checked 2026-09-14
- Xero — “generating Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) compliant payment files” · checked 2026-09-14
Tax and returns
Preliminary tax, filing dates, interest, penalties, surcharge, disclosure
The three preliminary options, statutory dates, s.1080 interest, the late-filing surcharge, penalty tables, the qualifying disclosure letter.
- Relate Software (DRIVE, Accounts Production, Company Secretary, Tax Managers) — “ensure that you are never late with returns” · checked 2026-09-30
Tax and returns
Historic reconstruction and projections
Rebuild a past year from evidence; project the current and next years; five-year horizon.
- Fathom — “Cash flow forecasting and planning” · checked 2026-09-29
Tax and returns
Source-to-return reconciliation and filing simulation
The return recomputed from the books and compared line by line; what would happen if filed today; unresolved findings counted.
- Relate Software (DRIVE, Accounts Production, Company Secretary, Tax Managers) — “utilises ROS online web based calculation engine, along with a comprehensive work flow module to calculate F11” · checked 2026-09-29
Bank
Bank reconciliation as a record with drift
Date, both balances, difference, signer, the ledger position underneath; the record goes stale out loud.
- Big Red Cloud — “Bank Reconciliation - Easily reconcile your bank account” · checked 2026-09-14
- Xero — “Bank Reconciliation” · checked 2026-09-14
Reporting
Exception reporting
What needs attention, ordered by exposure, across every domain.
- AccountsIQ — “exception detection” · checked 2026-09-14
- Campfire — “Anomaly detection” · checked 2026-09-14
Checking and automation
Anomaly detection and independent recomputation
Deterministic rules with versions, replay, calibrated confidence, a final verifier that can overturn.
- AccountsIQ — “exception detection, and close preparation” · checked 2026-09-14
- Caseware (Cloud Audit and Caseware Tax, UK) — “the Analytics Hub runs more than 300 journal entry tests across all transactions to flag anomalies and unusual postings” · checked 2026-09-14
Where we are level with the market
The everyday things you would expect to keep, each evidenced the same way.
- Books and bank
- Bank rules: user-defined conditions and actions · Automated matching of bank lines to invoices, bills and transfers · Quotes and quote-to-invoice progress · Recurring invoices · Payment allocation and open items · Duplicate detection: transactions, documents, invoices · Corrections with a change history · Budgets and budget versus actual
- Payroll
- Pensions: employee and employer contributions, relief, PSR fields · Statutory sick pay · Starters, leavers, corrections and restatements · Payroll journal to the ledger · Payslips: PDF and email · Employer liability and payroll reporting · Revenue reconciliation · Bureau and multi-employer workflow
- Tax and returns
- RCT: subcontractor credit, principal withholding, ROS import · Form 11 carried forward from last year's ROS file
- Audit and assurance
- Findings, review notes, sign-off, evidence packs · AML customer due diligence and identity verification
- Practice
- Client list, onboarding and grants · Review stages, approvals and review notes · Client communication: notes, letters, engagement letters · Time, WIP, fees and write-offs · Portfolio dashboards and workload
- Working with clients
- Secure client portal with uploads
- Connections
- Payroll journal export to other ledgers
- Security and governance
- Multi-factor authentication for every audience
What we do not do yet
Selected from the same archived evidence by the same code. If one of these is how you work, it is better that you read it here than find it in week two.
- Books and bank
Receipt capture and document extraction — Dext, Xero, QuickBooks Online (Ireland), Sage Accounting (Ireland), AutoEntry, Big Red Cloud have it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-29
Online payment on invoices (pay link) — Xero, QuickBooks Online (Ireland), Bullet, Big Red Cloud have it · checked 2026-09-16
Batch operations — Xero, CollSoft Payroll have it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-16
Multi-currency — Xero, BrightBooks, Campfire have it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-14
Tracking categories, projects, departments — Xero, QuickBooks Online (Ireland) have it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-14
Purchase orders and approvals — Xero has it · checked 2026-09-29
Multi-page and batch capture from a phone — Dext has it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-29
Email-in document capture — Dext, AutoEntry, Big Red Cloud, Xero have it · checked 2026-09-29
Supplier rules for captured documents — Dext, Big Red Cloud have it · checked 2026-09-29
A captured receipt matched to the bank line it paid — Dext has it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-29
Supplier statement reconciliation — Dext has it · checked 2026-09-30
- Payroll
RPN retrieval and PSR submission (PAYE Modernisation) — BrightPay (Ireland), CollSoft Payroll, Thesaurus Payroll Manager have it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-16
Auto-enrolment (My Future Fund) — Sage Payroll (Ireland), Thesaurus Payroll Manager have it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-29
Annual, unpaid and parental leave calendar; holiday pay — BrightPay (Ireland), Thesaurus Payroll Manager have it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-30
Employee self-service portal — Thesaurus Payroll Manager has it · checked 2026-09-29
Timesheet import and CWPS — Thesaurus Payroll Manager has it · checked 2026-09-30
CSO EHECS return from payroll — Thesaurus Payroll Manager, BrightPay (Ireland) have it · checked 2026-09-30
- Tax and returns
Tax workpapers and review workflow — Bright Workpapers (MyWorkpapers), Karbon, Caseware (Cloud Audit and Caseware Tax, UK) have it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-14
RCT payments notified to ROS from the product — Big Red Cloud has it · checked 2026-09-29
- Audit and assurance
Engagement planning, materiality, risk and assertions — Caseware (Cloud Audit and Caseware Tax, UK) has it · checked 2026-09-14
Journal testing and analytics — Caseware (Cloud Audit and Caseware Tax, UK) has it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-14
Working papers from the imported trial balance — Bright Workpapers (MyWorkpapers) has it · checked 2026-09-30
Disclosure checklist for financial statements — Caseware (Cloud Audit and Caseware Tax, UK) has it · checked 2026-09-29
- Practice
Staff, roles and permissions — Big Red Cloud has it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-29
Email integration and triage — Karbon has it · checked 2026-09-14
Proposals and pricing — BrightManager (practice management) has it · checked 2026-09-30
Client reminders by email and SMS from the practice — Relate Software (DRIVE, Accounts Production, Company Secretary, Tax Managers), BrightManager (practice management) have it · checked 2026-09-30
Search across the practice's clients by what their records hold — Relate Software (DRIVE, Accounts Production, Company Secretary, Tax Managers) has it · checked 2026-09-30
- Working with clients
E-signature — Bright Accounts Production, Karbon, BrightManager (practice management) have it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-30
- Bank
Automatic bank feeds — Xero, Big Red Cloud, BrightBooks have it; ours waits on somebody else · checked 2026-09-17
Payment initiation — Digits has it · checked 2026-09-14
PDF and scanned bank statement import — AutoEntry, Dext have it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-29
- Checking and automation
Natural-language assistant over the books — Digits, Campfire, Karbon, Xero, Big Red Cloud have it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-29
Assistant that prepares records for approval — Big Red Cloud, Campfire, AccountsIQ have it · checked 2026-09-29
- Mobile
Mobile-usable workflows — Xero, Big Red Cloud, BrightBooks have it; ours is partly built · checked 2026-09-29
- Connections
The customer's own AI assistant connected to the books through MCP — Big Red Cloud has it · checked 2026-09-30
Start the move
Open an account, pick your changeover date and bring the trial balance. Nothing is posted until the mapping is yours.