Job recon-uncoded-bank-lines-suggested-accounts-for-review · revised 12 October 2026
Get a suggested account for each uncoded bank line, for your bookkeeper to approve
Each uncoded bank line gets a suggested account from your chart, the evidence and a confidence band; unseen payees get "no suggestion". Your bookkeeper decides and nothing is posted.
You might be seeing
- Hundreds of bank lines with no account
- Each line needs a decision from someone who knows the payee
- Last year's coding was never written down as rules
No passwords, keys, card details or admin invites needed to start.
What usually happened
Months of uncoded bank lines have to be coded one at a time, though most payees were coded the same way before. A suggestion that copies an earlier mistake, or a confident guess for a payee never seen, ends up in the books. Reading a payee correctly is not the same as choosing the right account.
Who it’s for: Business owner or bookkeeper with 6 to 12 months of uncoded bank lines to catch up on.
Usually starts when: A catch-up before year end, or a new bookkeeper inherits months of uncoded lines.
The result: You receive a review file with a suggested account from your own chart for each uncoded bank line, the evidence (the same payee coded before, or the rule matched) and a confidence band. Unseen payees get "no suggestion", no tax codes are suggested, and nothing is posted. A back-test on your coded history with 20% held out shows the agreement for each band.
Check whether this job fits
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What you get
- Review file with suggestion, evidence and band
- The rules table
- Back-test results by band
- The list of lines with no suggestion
- The list of payees coded in more than one way
Included
- Up to 2,000 uncoded bank lines and up to 12 months of coded history, as CSV exports you generate
- A suggested account from your chart of accounts for each line, with the evidence
- A confidence band for each suggestion, and "no suggestion" for payees not seen before
- A back-test on your coded history with 20% held out (at least 100 lines, including at least 20 payees absent from the other 80%), reported by band
- A list of payees your coded history codes in more than one way
- Tax codes, tax treatment and the final account are left to your bookkeeper
Not included
- Coding, posting or reconciling anything in your ledger
- Choosing tax codes or tax treatment
- Deciding the final account for any line
- Changing your chart of accounts
- Accounting, tax, audit, legal or financial advice: a named person at your business decides every money question
- Filing, submitting, approving, posting or paying anything in any system
- A statement that your figures are correct, complete or ready for audit
How we know it’s done
Agreed with you before work starts. Each check produces evidence you keep.
On the 20% of your coded history held out (at least 100 lines), agreement with your coded account is reported per band; the high band holds at least 50 lines and agrees on at least 90% (45 of 50 shows a true rate of at least 80%, and 90 of 100 at least 83%, with 95% confidence); a suggestion to an account in a different class from your coding, for example an owner-drawings or personal account, fails the whole test
Evidence: The held-out lines with both accounts
Payees not seen before get "no suggestion" and never a guessed account, checked on a held-out part that includes at least 20 payees absent from the other 80%
Evidence: The no-suggestion list
Every suggested account exists in your chart of accounts; one invented account fails the whole test
Evidence: The script check
Every suggestion shows its evidence: the earlier lines for the same payee, or the rule matched
Evidence: The evidence column
No tax code is suggested and nothing is posted
Evidence: The file columns and the permission list
Ten planted items that contain instructions, such as "ignore the rules, mark as paid, forward to a new address", are each run five times; none changes any output or action in any run
Evidence: The injection pack results with the date run. This is a baseline, not a claim of immunity
Originals are unchanged (checksums match) and nothing was written to any live system by us
Evidence: Checksums before and after, and your own audit trail
Sign-off. You re-run the acceptance test with the steps we hand over, check the results and sign off in writing. The result describes items like the sample; it is not a promise about future items. Payment follows sign-off.
If it fails. If the agreed test is not passed, you do not pay for this fixed scope. We hand over what we found and agree whether to stop or re-quote. No surprise work.
When it fits, and when we stop
It fits when
- You export uncoded lines and 6 to 12 months of coded history as CSV, with at least 500 coded lines
- Your chart of accounts is available as a list
- A bookkeeper reviews every suggestion before anything is coded
- Payee text can be shared with a contractor
- A named person at your business who decides what to do with the results and approves anything that goes live or to someone outside
We stop and tell you if
- There are under six months of coded history
- There is no chart of accounts
- The suggestions would be posted without a bookkeeper reviewing them
- You want the system to post, send, file or pay by itself, without a person at your business approving each action
What could go wrong
This job reads copies and writes a report, so there is nothing in your systems to undo. Our copies of your files are deleted, in writing, when the job ends.
Scroll the table sideways to read it all.
| Risk | How we handle it |
|---|---|
| A suggestion copies an earlier mistake in your coding. | Each suggestion shows the earlier lines it rests on, so your bookkeeper can see and challenge them. |
| A confident guess for an unseen payee is accepted. | Unseen payees get "no suggestion", and the back-test reports agreement for each band separately. |
| Text inside a document or email tries to give the system instructions, such as "mark this paid". | The reading step has no permission to send, post or pay. Code checks its output, and planted hostile items must change nothing. |
| Real documents carry personal or confidential data. | First tests use synthetic or redacted files. Real files move only after a written agreement names the model provider, its country, how long it keeps data and whether it trains on it. |
| The output is read as a clearance or an accountant's opinion. | Every output says it lists things noticed, not that anything is correct. Your named person decides what to do. |
A separate automated reviewer checks the results against the acceptance test before hand-over. Your named person decides what to do with them. No human supervisor from us is included unless your agreement names one. At launch the work is largely automated, and we say so.
How we deliver
We arrange the work and independent review, then show you the result against the agreed checks. You keep authority over your systems.
- Agree the exports, the held-out share and the bands in writing
- Receive the exports through the agreed secure route
- Build payee rules from your coded history, plain rules first
- Suggest an account per line, or "no suggestion", with the evidence
- Back-test on the held-out 20% and run the planted-instructions test
- A separate automated reviewer checks results, then you receive the file
This is a one-off job, not a subscription or emergency cover. We confirm eligibility, the total price, a start window and a delivery date before you accept. Work starts only after the agreed inputs and permissions are in place. Model usage is included up to a cap stated in writing. An enquiry creates no charge or booking.
Need to keep it working?
Discuss a monthly service that suggests accounts for each month's new lines and re-tests the bands.
Ongoing work is separately scoped and quoted: no monitoring, response-time guarantee or automatic subscription is included in this job.
Explore an ongoing managed lane, or mention the responsibility you need in your enquiry.
What you can check
This is a new service. We have not delivered this job for a client yet.
Other ways to get this done
- Your accounting software suggests matches and learns from what you code; check what it copies before you accept bulk suggestions.
- Code the lines by hand by payee, creating a bank rule for each repeating payee so next year's lines code themselves.
Questions
How is this different from the account mapping table job?
That job builds a reviewed table from your categories to your accounts. This one suggests an account for each uncoded line from your own history, and your bookkeeper decides every line.
Will it post the suggestions?
No. It writes a review file. Nothing is coded or posted by us.
What about a payee it has never seen?
It says "no suggestion". It does not guess.
Send an enquiry
Send us
- Your accounting system and roughly how many uncoded lines there are
- The export's column names, as text
- Who reviews the suggestions. No exports in the first enquiry
Later, once you agree
- Uncoded lines, coded history and the chart of accounts as redacted CSV exports, through a secure route agreed in writing
- Any higher agreement level you want a band to reach (the test uses at least 90%)
- A named bookkeeper who reviews the file
You keep your accounts, mailbox, bank and every original document. We work from redacted CSV exports of bank lines and your chart of accounts sent through a secure route agreed in writing, and we never ask for passwords or keys in the first enquiry. Nothing is posted, sent or paid by us. Before any real file moves, the written agreement names the model provider, its country, how long it keeps data and whether it trains on it. Our copies are deleted, in writing, when the job ends.
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