Accounting Skills

Each skill is a complete accounting process OCTA Flow can run: the step-by-step procedure, the controls that keep it clean, and how the automation works with a human signing off on every entry.

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Accounts Payable Review

The complete accounts payable review process — aging buckets, duplicate invoice and payment detection, and three-way match — plus how firms automate it.

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AR Aging Review

The complete AR aging review process — aging buckets, DSO calculation, collection review, and bad-debt provisioning — plus how firms automate it with AI.

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Bank Reconciliation

The complete bank reconciliation process and format — matching transactions, outstanding checks, deposits in transit — plus how firms automate it with AI.

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Bank Statement Entries

How to categorize bank statement transactions to the right GL accounts and draft the journal entry, plus how firms automate it with human approval.

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Customer Reconciliation

The complete customer (AR subledger) reconciliation process — matching invoices to remittances, resolving unapplied cash — plus how firms automate it.

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Depreciation Computation

The complete depreciation computation process — straight-line, declining balance, and SYD schedules, GL reconciliation — plus how firms automate it.

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Exception Review

How firms run an audit exception review — classifying findings by materiality and severity, aggregating misstatements — plus how OCTA Flow automates it.

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Financial Statement Preparation

How to prepare a full set of financial statements from an adjusted trial balance, the cross-statement checks, and how firms automate the process with AI.

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Fixed Asset Capitalization

How to classify an expenditure as capitalize vs. expense — policy thresholds, the de minimis safe harbor, and the RABI test — plus how firms automate it.

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Going Concern Assessment

The going concern assessment process under ASC 205-40 — adverse conditions, management's plans, and the substantial doubt conclusion — plus AI automation.

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Intercompany Reconciliation

How intercompany reconciliation works — matching IC balances across entities, resolving FX and timing differences, and producing elimination entries.

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Inventory Valuation

The complete inventory valuation process — count reconciliation, FIFO vs. weighted average costing, and lower of cost or NRV testing — plus AI automation.

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Journal Entry Testing

The journal entry testing process for fraud risk (AS 2401 / ISA 240) — completeness, risk filters, scoring, and sample selection — plus automation.

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Lease Computation (ASC 842 / IFRS 16)

How to compute the ROU asset and lease liability under ASC 842 / IFRS 16, classify operating vs. finance leases, and build the amortization schedule.

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Month-End Close

The complete month-end close process (checklist, journal entries, reconciliations, flux analysis, and sign-off), plus how firms automate it with AI agents.

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Partner Basis Computation

How to compute a partner's outside basis in a Form 1065 partnership — K-1 items, liability shares, contributions and distributions — plus AI automation.

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Payroll Reconciliation

The complete payroll reconciliation process — register to GL, net pay to bank, withholding checks, and ghost-employee detection — plus AI automation.

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Related Party Identification

How to identify related party transactions and draft ASC 850 / IAS 24 disclosures — building the list, scanning the GL — plus how firms automate it.

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Restaurant Aggregator Reconciliation

How to reconcile a restaurant's POS sales to a delivery aggregator's settlement report — orders, commissions, fees, and the bank payout — plus automation.

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Revenue Recognition Review

How to review revenue recognition under ASC 606 / IFRS 15 — the 5-step model, cut-off testing, deferred and unbilled revenue — plus how firms automate it.

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Sales Tax Computation

How multi-state sales tax works — economic nexus, destination-based sourcing, taxability, exemption certificates, and use tax — plus automation.

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Shareholder Basis Computation

How to compute S-corp shareholder stock and debt basis from the Form 1120-S K-1 in IRC § 1367 order, track AAA, and apply loss limits — plus automation.

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Tax Provision Computation

The full ASC 740 tax provision process — current tax expense, deferred taxes, valuation allowance, UTPs, and the ETR reconciliation — plus AI automation.

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Trial Balance Review

The complete trial balance review process — footing checks, classification, sign testing, flux analysis, and unusual-balance flags — plus AI automation.

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Variance Analysis

How to run a budget-vs-actual and period-over-period variance analysis — dual materiality thresholds, metrics, benchmarks — plus how firms automate it.

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Vendor Reconciliation

The complete vendor statement reconciliation process — matching invoices, unrecorded liabilities, GRNI accruals, disputed amounts — plus AI automation.