Quick answer
A cold review challenge is a job you have already completed and filed, run again from scratch by AllDone. You upload your finished file alongside the client's records; AllDone cross-checks your own file, then produces a verdict listing what it raised that your file may not have. Figures that agree are stated as agreement.
When you meet this
When you want to see AllDone on your own work before trusting it on a live job. The job is created by a partner or senior from the Jobs tab. Planning is skipped, no client is contacted, and one testing sign-off stands in for the review gates.
How to
Click + New job. Under "What are you starting?" choose I have the records now / testing an old job, and leave the Cold review challenge box ticked. The box is for testing AllDone against a job you have already completed and filed, not for preparing a job: untick it for a live job whose records are in hand. Enter roughly how many hours your team spent on the job originally; the verdict uses it as a baseline.
Pick the client and the period, then confirm the engagement details as usual.
On the step Your completed work, upload your own file into the three slots: Current working papers, Current financial statements and Current CT600 & tax computations. A coverage line under the slots says which of the challenge checks will run with what is on file and what to add to run the rest.
On the step Client underlying records, upload the client's exports as you would on a live job: the trial balance and general ledger with comparatives, the profit and loss, the balance sheet, last year's signed accounts and CT600, and whatever evidence you hold (bank statements, VAT returns, payroll, the fixed asset register and so on). See Uploading the client's records.
Run the stages. The job opens at Records intake.
What AllDone does with it
Two things, on two screens.
On the Records stage, the cold review card "Your file cross-checked" checks your own file against itself: the financial statements agreed to your leads, the leads to their backing sheets and control reconciliations, and the trial balance to the statements. Differences found here are inside your own file, not AllDone's. Until something is uploaded the card explains that the cold review runs the moment your completed working papers, financial statements and CT600 with computations are on file.
At Completion, the test verdict card reads what AllDone raised. Its headline leads with the number of things AllDone raised that your file may not have, how many you have confirmed as catches and how many are waiting for your answer, then how many filed figures agree with AllDone's before any adjustment. Under "Your call - confirm each finding before it scores" you answer every finding: Agree - AllDone caught this, We did this elsewhere / it's in our file, AllDone misread or Not relevant to this client. Nothing counts until you have answered. Further sections set your filed figures against AllDone's for the financial statements and the tax computation, the statutory checks, "Better outcome - the client's goal", "More thorough - what AllDone caught", the working documents your file does not hold, and your file's own cross-checks carried forward. A Word link downloads the verdict. See The test verdict on a cold review job.
The verdict never shows a percentage of figures AllDone "got right", and it never scores AllDone against your firm.
If something looks wrong
Only some checks run. The coverage line under the completed-work slots names the missing file: the financial statements drive the parity and disclosure checks, the CT600 the tax checks, the working papers the cross-checks and the working-documents comparison.
The cold review card says your file changed. AllDone is bringing the comparison up to date and the card refreshes itself when it is done.
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