Financial Statement Review: group verdicts, recalculation detection, and cross-country number format handling
In Punchcard's Financial Statement Review, confirming or flagging a number group now resolves all occurrences at once, derived-value relationships like margin percentages are detected automatically, and each statement's number format is identified from the document itself.
Financial Statement Review
Group-level decisions in Internal Consistency and Prior Year Consistency
- Settling a group is now a single action. Confirming or flagging a number group resolves all its occurrences — current-year and prior-year — simultaneously. Previously each occurrence had to be handled individually, and prior-year numbers had no controls at all, leaving some groups stuck showing a partial verdict indefinitely.
- Groups display the number of occurrences they cover rather than a running reviewed/total count. Sidebar progress now tracks groups, not individual occurrences — one group is one decision.
- Each occurrence can be removed from its group independently. Every row, including prior-year rows, now has a "Remove from group" action to dispute a number's membership without changing the group's verdict for the remaining occurrences.
Recalculation: multiplication and division relationships
- Financial Statement Review now automatically detects when a value is mathematically derived from other cells via multiplication or division — for example, a margin percentage calculated from revenue and expenses, or a contributions figure expressed as a percentage of covered payroll. Tick marks are suggested when the relationship holds and flagged when the calculation does not reconcile.
- Only well-supported relationships are surfaced; proposals without enough corroborating evidence are filtered out automatically, keeping exception marks meaningful.
Number format detection per statement
- FSR now detects whether each financial statement uses US or European number formatting from the document itself, rather than always applying the firm's default. This prevents incorrect footing results when a firm audits statements prepared in a different country's format — for example, a European firm reviewing a US-formatted balance sheet.
Fewer false exceptions in Internal Consistency
- IC no longer raises exceptions on numbers that are part of an expected allocation or breakdown — for example, one expense line disaggregated across Program Services, Management, and Fundraising columns, or a list of component lines that sum to a total elsewhere on the statement. These represent expected differences, not genuine inconsistencies.
- IC group formation is more precise: each member of a group must have an individual reason to belong, reducing cases where unrelated occurrences were incorrectly grouped together.
Foot/Crossfoot validation accuracy
- The Foot/Crossfoot check now identifies more total rows across your statements and produces fewer incorrect corrections, including on statements where some formulas are genuinely wrong elsewhere on the same page.
Workpaper
- Uploads of large files are more resilient. When the initial processing request took too long to return a response, files could appear as failed even though processing was still running in the background. The upload now checks the actual processing status and updates automatically when it completes.
Task Overview
- The task overview page no longer fails to load when a category was deleted. If a task's assigned category had been removed from the engagement, opening that task would previously show an error. The page now opens normally and treats the task as uncategorized.