Every figure on the statements traces back to the ledger line it came from, and to the person who decided where that line belongs. Six months later, you can still answer the question an inspector actually asks: who decided this, and when?
To be exact: that anchoring must be switched on and running well BEFORE anything goes wrong. Anchor afterwards and you only prove things from that point on.
An annual report and financial statements is four parts: balance sheet, income statement, notes, directors’ report. Soluta issues all four as one bound document, in the Companies Act formats (SI 2008/409 Sch.1, Format 1 or Format 2), with comparatives.
For companies using the small companies regime. Micro-entity formats (Section C) and the medium and large company formats (SI 2008/410) are not supported yet.
If the notes or the directors’ report are missing, it refuses to print. CA 2006 s396(1) puts the notes inside “the accounts” — a document without them balances, but it is not what the Act calls financial statements.
It walks the 21 statutory notes and the 4 Schedule 5 items one by one, and prints how many you reviewed and found not applicable. Omitted because you have none and omitted because someone forgot read exactly the same on paper; that count is what tells them apart.
Boxes 1–5 to two decimals, boxes 6–9 as integers, rounded half up — the two different rounding rules HMRC’s own specification asks for, on one return.
It asks about the three EU/NI boxes instead of assuming: the ledger does not record which border goods crossed. 0 because there was none and 0 because the ledger never recorded it, print the same figure — and one of them is an under-declaration.
It also tells you, by account code, which purchases it is about to put in box 7 — because wages, PAYE and NI all carry the same role as any other cost, and box 7 excludes them (VAT Notice 700/12 §3.8). Left alone, box 7 overstates at almost every business with a payroll.
The rules Soluta applies come from the legislation itself — held in the product, with a checksum for every file and, for each document we did not write ourselves, its source URL; plus a record of which amendments the stored text does not yet include. When the code cites a regulation, a test checks that citation against that record.
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Soluta prepares the return and the accounts for you to submit through your HMRC-recognised filing route. Submitting a VAT return under Making Tax Digital needs HMRC-recognised software and a Government Gateway account. We build the request — URL, body, fraud-prevention headers, the box constraints — and stop at the last step.
Desktop edition: the ledger core runs on your own machine and keeps working offline. Web edition: your books run on our servers, one box per company, with nothing to install. Either way, the route table states exactly where your data goes.
See where data goes → That table is generated from the running configuration, published openly, no sign-in required.
One price, with nothing metered on top.
Businesses keeping their own books, and bookkeeping firms handling up to 5 companies
Paid yearly £6,990 — saves £1,398, two months free.
No setup fee. No lock-in.
All-in — there is no second meter. The AI is already in the price; you are never billed extra by usage, however many documents that month brings.
Five companies, on one licence. Five separate sets of books, each with its own chart of accounts, its own VAT registration and its own filing calendar. Nothing is shared between them except the licence.
Running more than five? Talk to us first — we would rather size it with you than sell you a plan that does not fit.
What you are billed is what you agreed. Your invoice changes when you ask for it to change, and at no other time.
Your books stay yours — stop any time, and take them with you.