Your Financial Statement Delivery Agent Explains the Numbers
The AgentWorks Financial Statement Delivery Agent takes the monthly assembly and delivery of client financial statements off your accountants. It builds each client's package from QuickBooks or Xero, adds the period-over-period comparison, drafts a plain-language summary of what changed, routes it for review, delivers it to the client, and follows up on the questions that come back. The Financial Statement Delivery Agent does the building, sending, and follow-up; your accountants review and advise.
What it takes off your plate
Here is how statements go out in many firms. Someone exports the reports from QuickBooks, formats them in Excel, saves a PDF, and writes a cover email. Each client's package looks different depending on who prepared it that month. The management letter with a plain-language read of the numbers takes extra time, so in busy weeks it gets skipped. Then the client calls to ask why cash dropped or what an accrual is, because the report came with no context.
The cost is repeated work and repeated calls. Every package is rebuilt by hand. Every missing explanation turns into a phone call that interrupts review. And a client business that does not understand its statements starts to wonder what it is paying for.
What the Financial Statement Delivery Agent does, step by step
The work begins with the client conversation and runs through the records.
- Tells the client what is coming. When the close for an engagement is marked complete, the agent lets the client know by email when to expect their package and where it will arrive.
- Builds the package. It pulls the balance sheet, income statement, and any reports the engagement calls for from QuickBooks or Xero and lays them out in the firm's standard format, the same way every month.
- Adds the comparison. It places the current period beside the prior period and the same period last year, and marks the lines that moved beyond the thresholds your firm sets.
- Drafts the summary. It writes a short plain-language summary of the main trends and variances, using the explanations the accountant recorded during the close.
- Routes for review. The package and summary go to the accountant on the engagement. What the numbers mean for the client's business is the accountant's judgment, so nothing goes out until they approve it.
- Delivers it. Once approved, the agent posts the package to the client portal in SmartVault and emails the client with the summary in the body.
- Follows up. It checks that the client opened the package, answers questions the summary already covers by pointing to the right line, and books a call with the accountant through Google Calendar when the question needs a person.
Where the work is recorded
An agent that cannot write down what it did is a chatbot. The Financial Statement Delivery Agent records its work where your firm already looks.
In the CRM, each client's record shows the package sent, the date it was opened, every question the client asked, the answer given, and any call booked with the accountant, in order. When the client calls, whoever answers sees the conversation so far and starts from there.
In the client's folder, each month's approved package and summary sit side by side in SmartVault, so the whole year's story is in one place. The next morning the engagement manager opens one view and sees which packages went out, which are waiting on review, which clients have not opened theirs, and which asked a question that needs a call.
What your people do instead
Your accountants stay with the client at hand: the owner who wants to talk through a hiring decision, the lender meeting that needs the numbers explained well, the prospect asking what monthly reporting from your firm looks like. That conversation is where client satisfaction in an accounting practice is built, and it belongs to people.
The AgentWorks Financial Statement Delivery Agent keeps the packages, deliveries, and follow-ups moving around them. For other parts of the practice, read how to deploy the Document Agent and stop chasing client files, and a second look at how the Document Agent takes over intake.
One next step
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