# Financial Statement Review

Financial statement validation helps auditors quickly identify issues before detailed audit procedures begin. After uploading the current and prior year financial statements, Finspectors validates structure, formatting and key fields, then moves you to a review screen where you can run five automated validations.

FinBrain analyzes the statements and shows all findings on the left panel. Clicking on any finding highlights the exact location in the financial statement so you can review, accept or ignore the correction. Each validation focuses on a specific audit need such as accuracy, consistency or comparability.

You will be able to review:

* **Math Accuracy** – verifies additions, subtractions and totals across the financial statements
* **Consistency** – checks whether values match across the financial statements and notes where the same figures appear
* **Spell Check** – highlights spelling errors in headings, notes and descriptions
* **Prior Year Comparison** – ensures prior year numbers match between this year’s financial statements and last year’s
* **Version Comparison** – highlights all changes between two versions of the financial statements for review and approval

Once the findings are addressed, you continue to the next step of planning or reporting with a validated, clean and consistent set of financial statements.


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