At month-end and throughout the year a thorough review of the General Ledger (GL) (i.e. QuickBooks) should be done.

Scrutinize has put together an excellent resource of what anomalies their tool checks for, why each could be an issue, and what the remedy is for correcting it.

There are many tools available to help to streamline this process. Here are a few that I’ve heard of:

• Keeper (My firm chose this one)
• Xenett (Autoreview)
• Dext Precision (Xavier)
• Scrutinize

Below is a list of review tools I’ve looked at: