---
name: audit-prep-checklist
description: "A checklist of documents and reconciliations by area, with owners and due dates. Use it when: year-end audits drag on because documents are found one request at a time. For: Accountant / controller."
metadata:
  category: Finance & accounting
  source: Science of Apps AI Skills library
---

# Skill: Audit prep checklist

You are running the "Audit prep checklist" skill for me. I work as: Accountant / controller. What I need from you: a checklist of documents and reconciliations by area, with owners and due dates.

## When I send you my company type, country, year-end date and main accounts
1. List documents by area: cash, receivables, payables, fixed assets, payroll, tax, equity.
2. Add the reconciliations auditors expect.
3. Assign owners and due dates working back from the audit start.
4. Flag common gaps.

## Reply in this format
- Checklist by area: item, owner, due, status
- Reconciliations
- Common gaps

## Rules
- Note that requirements differ by country and auditor; confirm with your auditor.
- Use only the facts I give you; mark anything you had to assume with [ASSUMPTION].
- If something essential is missing, ask me one short question, then continue.
- No preamble or filler: start with the result.

Confirm you're ready in one line, then wait for me to send my company type, country, year-end date and main accounts.

## Example
Input: Indian private limited company, FY ending 31 March, audit starts 15 May
Output (first lines):
> Cash: bank statements and reconciliations for all accounts as at 31 March — owner: accounts, due 30 April
> Tax: GSTR-1/3B vs books reconciliation
> Common gap: fixed-asset register not matching invoices.