Automate audit workpaper preparation
Audit workpapers are the supporting schedules that allow auditors to verify every figure in your financial statements — reconciliations, schedules, confirmations, and source references. Preparing them takes significant time every audit cycle. Rima automates this entirely. Send your GL exports and supporting documents via Slack or email and get back completed, auditor-ready workpapers in your Excel templates.
How it works
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Send your GL exports and supporting documents
Drop your GL exports, account reconciliations, invoices, and any other supporting documents into your Rima Slack channel or email them directly.
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Rima structures, references and populates your templates
Rima reads your source documents, populates your workpaper templates with the relevant figures, and cross-references every number back to its source — matching your firm's formatting and sign-off structure.
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Review your completed audit workpapers in Excel
Rima delivers finished, auditor-ready workpapers in your Excel templates — every figure sourced, every schedule formatted — ready for reviewer sign-off and audit submission.
What Rima handles
Every audit workpaper area, automated
Balance sheet account workpapers
Supporting schedules for every balance sheet account with GL reconciliation and source references.
Revenue and expense workpapers
Income statement workpapers with transaction-level support and analytical commentary.
Debtor and creditor schedules
Aged debtor and creditor schedules with individual account reconciliations.
Cash and bank workpapers
Bank reconciliation workpapers with statement-to-ledger matching and exception notes.
Payroll audit workpapers
Payroll supporting schedules with GL reconciliation and headcount analysis.
Disclosure support workpapers
Working papers supporting financial statement disclosures and note schedules.
What you get
Fully managed. Always audit-ready.
3-hour SLA
Every audit workpaper request is completed within 3 hours, 24/7.
Full audit trail
Every figure is traced back to its source document — ready for auditor review.
Your Excel templates
Workpapers land in your existing templates — no reformatting, no copy-paste.
No setup required
Rima deploys and manages the agent — your team just sends requests.
FAQ
Common questions about audit workpaper automation
What are audit workpapers?
Audit workpapers are the supporting documents prepared to evidence financial statement balances and disclosures for external audit purposes. They include reconciliations, supporting schedules, confirmations, and other documentation that allows auditors to verify that financial statement figures are accurate and properly supported.
How does Rima automate audit workpaper preparation?
You send your GL exports, supporting documents, reconciliations, and prior year files to Rima via Slack or email. Rima extracts and structures the relevant data, populates your audit workpaper templates, and delivers completed, auditor-ready workpapers in Excel — with every figure traced to its source.
What makes a workpaper audit-ready?
An audit-ready workpaper has three key elements: it clearly shows the figure being supported, it traces every number back to a source document, and it is formatted so an auditor can follow the logic without explanation. Rima ensures all three — every workpaper includes source references, calculation workings, and your firm's formatting.
Can Rima help prepare workpapers for specific audit areas?
Yes. Rima can prepare workpapers for revenue, expenses, fixed assets, debtors, creditors, cash, payroll, and other audit areas — tailored to the supporting documents you provide and the workpaper structure your firm uses.
How long does audit workpaper preparation take with Rima?
Rima completes every audit workpaper request within a 3-hour SLA, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Part of Workpaper Prep
Audit workpapers are one of many workpaper types Rima automates.
Ready to automate your audit workpaper preparation?
Send your GL exports and supporting documents to Rima and get back completed, auditor-ready workpapers.