Quick answer
AllDone prepares the year-end file for a UK private limited company: the working papers, the reconciliations, the financial statements under FRS 102 Section 1A or FRS 105, the tax computation and the client documents. Every figure is calculated by rules, every judgement is yours, and nothing is filed with Companies House or HMRC.
What AllDone does
You upload the client's bookkeeping exports and last year's signed accounts. AllDone checks the records, maps every account to the statements, reconciles the balance sheet, finds the year-end adjustments, builds the tax computation and drafts the accounts and disclosures. The result is a reviewer-ready file: lead schedules for every area, reconciliations agreed to source, a preliminary and a final analytical review, the financial statements, the corporation tax computation, a register of every decision, the senior review pack and the client emails.
Every number comes from explicit UK accounting and tax rules applied line by line. AI is used only for wording and suggestions, never for a figure, and it never sees a client's name. See Why every number comes from rules, not from AI and What the AI sees, and what it never sees.
The four stages
A job moves through four stages, shown on the stage spine at the top of every job:
Planning. Set up the engagement, confirm what carried from last year, complete the planning schedule, send the records request and hold the Before call. The job then parks until the records arrive. See The Planning stage.
Records intake & agreement. Upload the records. AllDone checks them, maps them, agrees them to last year and shows one picture of what is missing or does not agree. You push back to the client where needed and record your verdict. See The Records intake & agreement stage.
Work. The seven steps: Profit & loss review, Balance sheet recs, Year-end adjustments, Specialist checks, The tax computation, Final figures & notes and Working papers, with the During call after the balance sheet recs. See The Work stage.
Completion. The final analytical review, the completion checklist, the second review, the sign-offs and the client output. See The Completion stage.
Two client calls sit inside the stages by design: the Before call in Planning and the During call in Work. A records pushback call runs in Records intake when something is missing, and an After call follows sign-off.
Where the accountant stays in the chair
Wherever AllDone finds a judgement it stops and puts a card in front of you: what it found, what it suggests and why, and your options. You choose, and your choice, your reason and the time are written to a permanent register that the reviewer reads. AllDone never decides a treatment for you. See The anatomy of a decision card.
What AllDone is not
Not a filing tool. AllDone does not submit accounts to Companies House or a CT600 to HMRC, and it does not produce formatted iXBRL accounts. It produces the final trial balance, the journals, the computation and the Word documents you key into or import into your existing filing software. See Does AllDone file with Companies House or HMRC?.
Not bookkeeping software. It reads exports from Xero, QuickBooks Online, Sage and others; it does not replace them or connect to them directly. See Which bookkeeping software does AllDone work with?.
Not for every entity. It produces accounts and a CT600 for a private limited company only. An LLP, a PLC, a partnership, a charity, a group or a sole trader cannot be set up as a job: the entity type is read from Companies House and anything other than a private limited company stops the Planning run with a clear message.
Not an audit. The checks are the checks a careful preparer makes. The engagement approach lets you choose how far the verification goes, from compiling the books as presented to insisting every expected record is evidenced before sign-off. See Choosing how thorough the job is.
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