Introducing Infinite Accountant On duty · UTC

An infinite Manager-grade reviewer, on every file the partner signs off.

The grade beneath the partner becomes elective, not essential.

Infinite Accountant performs the Manager-tier technical review on UK limited company accounts, to partner standard, in under twenty minutes — twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year. The qualified partner still signs off. The review-grade headcount becomes a choice. The same firm services more clients, to a higher standard, on the same payroll.

  1. Capacity absorbed 1 FTE

    of Manager-tier review capacity, per firm, redeployable to client-facing work.

  2. Annual cost, redeployable £6080k p.a.

    Loaded cost of a qualified Manager-tier reviewer at typical UK mid-tier scale.

  3. On duty 24/7

    Twenty-four hours, seven days. No leave, no sickness, no notice period. An always-on reviewer.

§ I.

What happens at sign‑off.

Twelve-minute run · one file

The preparer uploads the engagement. Within twenty minutes, Infinite Accountant returns both packs — a teaching document to the preparer, a commercial brief to the partner. Every figure traces back to a line, sheet and cell. Nothing invented. Nothing inferred.

infinite-accountant · engagement #A482 Example Ltd · FY 26 · companies‑house 09123456 Running
  1. 00:00:08 Ingesting trial_balance.xlsx · 1,284 rows · OK
  2. 00:00:12 Cross-referencing draft_accounts.pdf · 38 pages · OK
  3. 00:00:18 FRS 102 disclosure matrix · 42 / 42 · OK
  4. 00:01:47 Finding · 01 Deferred tax not recognised on fair-value uplift. source TB!I47Draft p.14 §12.3 · materiality £2,400
  5. 00:02:12 Finding · 02 Corporation tax payable understated at marginal-relief boundary. source TB!C22CT600 Box 475 · materiality £840
  6. 00:03:04 Finding · 03 Related-party disclosure absent — director loan cleared year-end. source TB!K88 → FRS 102 §33.9 · materiality £16,400
  7. 00:12:08 Review complete. 3 findings · 2 commercial opportunities · preparer pack & partner pack rendered as branded PDFs.
§ II.

Two packs. One run.

Preparer · Partner

Every run produces two deliverables. One makes your juniors sharper. The other makes your engagements bigger. Manager-tier review doesn’t stop at “is it right” — it ends at who needs to learn from it, and what the firm can do with it.

Pack I

The Preparer Pack.

For the staff member who prepared the file.

A teaching document, not a correction list. Every finding comes with the reasoning written out — the FRS reference, why it matters, and the working paper that proves it.

  • Finding-by-finding reasoning, in prose — not red pen
  • Every figure traced back to file, sheet and cell
  • FRS 105 / FRS 102 / IFRS references on every finding
  • Manager-tier coaching, attached to real engagements

Coaching on every file.

Pack II

The Partner Opportunities Pack.

For the partner signing off.

A commercial read of the client, built from the file itself. Cross-sell angles, tax-planning prompts, R&D and capital-allowance flags — each with a materiality estimate and a recommended opening line.

  • Tax-planning opportunities, quantified, with working-paper references
  • Cross-sell pathways — VAT, R&D, payroll, advisory
  • Client risk signals surfaced from the file, priced to materiality
  • An opening line for every fee conversation, sourced from the engagement

Every sign-off, a fee conversation.

§ III.

The economics.

Per engagement · Annual · At exit

Every statutory file runs two reviewers through a mid-tier practice: a Manager, then a Partner. Infinite Accountant replaces the first entirely and halves the second — four hours of chargeable time, returned to the firm, on every engagement.

Per engagement

The arithmetic.

  1. Manager review, returned £450

    Three hours at a typical £150 Manager charge rate — returned to the firm, every file. The Manager review tier becomes elective.

  2. Partner review, halved £200

    Roughly one partner hour per engagement compressed by a focused, pre-reviewed pack. At a £200 partner rate, that is another £200 back on the ticket.

  3. Gross saving, per file £650

    Compounded across engagements and partners. The firm bills the same clients to a higher standard — and books the difference.

Beyond the time saved

What the arithmetic doesn’t show.

  • WIP lockup compresses.

    Preparer to partner in an afternoon, not three weeks. Invoices go out sooner, cash clears sooner, and the year-end bottleneck becomes a single partner hour rather than a Manager’s diary slot.

  • Consistency, firm-wide.

    Every file reviewed to the same standard, on the same checklist, regardless of which partner signs off. Variance between reviewers falls away. The firm’s output becomes consistent and documented for ICAEW and ACCA quality monitoring.

  • Standards, lifted.

    Every finding lands with reason, impact and the FRS reference. Preparers see the working paper behind it. Preparer skill rises on the next file — observed in the review output, not guessed at in an appraisal.

  • Talent, retained.

    The kind of detailed, reasoned feedback juniors only used to get from the best Managers — now on every file. Preparers learn faster and stay longer. Recruitment and training costs fall with them.

  • Client responsiveness.

    Year-end meetings happen in days, not weeks. Tax-planning conversations open before the deadline, not after. Clients notice. Retention and referrals follow.

  • Above Manager-tier baseline.*

    Findings-per-file benchmarked against experienced human Manager review. Noise filtered below materiality; higher-risk files get a consistency pass and an adversarial pass. Calibrated to your firm.

*Benchmarked on our own engagements and early partner-access trials. Individual firm results subject to calibration, file complexity and adoption depth. Infinite Accountant sits alongside the qualified partner’s sign-off; it does not replace it.

Recovery calculator

Model your return.

Set your firm’s shape. The model computes the review-tier capacity Infinite Accountant would return to you — in pounds, hours, and working days of fee-earning time.

Firm assumptions
including junior partners
non-audit stat accounts · typical 80–200
loaded hourly charge rate
loaded hourly charge rate
Manager review, displaced
Partner review time recovered
Estimated return

Annual recovered capacity

97,500

600 hours · 80 working days returned to fee-earning

Per engagement
£650
Per partner, annual
£9,750
Three-year cumulative
£292,500
Five-year cumulative
£487,500

Illustrative. Assumes full adoption and unchanged rates. Excludes downstream revenue from redeployed capacity, faster WIP turnover, and fees surfaced by the Partner Opportunities Pack. Working day equals 7.5 chargeable hours.

The arithmetic reads differently depending on who owns the firm. For partners, it is time returned to fee-earning. For owners — including PE-backed firms — it is higher profit per engagement, stronger cashflow from compressed WIP, and EBITDA that lifts year on year with the same partner base.

§ IV.

Six capabilities, shipped today.

Manager-grade review, on every file

“Three findings in twelve minutes that would have taken me a Sunday. And one I would probably have missed.

Engagement Partner UK Chartered practice
  • 01 / Technical

    Reconciliation & tax.

    Trial balance to accounts. Corporation-tax computation. Disclosures against FRS 105, FRS 102 and IFRS.

  • 02 / Evidence

    Source-cited output.

    Every figure in every finding traces back to file, sheet and cell. Nothing invented. Nothing inferred.

  • 03 / Materiality

    Noise filtered.

    Findings below materiality never reach the partner. Signal only, calibrated to engagement size.

  • 04 / Cover

    Second-opinion layer.

    Adversarial and consistency layers on higher-risk files. A technical second opinion on every engagement.

  • 05 / Turnaround

    Under twenty minutes.

    A complete run — ingest, review, both packs rendered — in under twenty minutes. The partner reads, not waits.

  • 06 / Stack

    Fits the firm.

    Xero, CCH, IRIS, Sage. Branded PDFs out the other end. No workflow replacement required, no re-platforming. Onboarded in weeks.

    • Xero
    • CCH
    • IRIS
    • Sage
§ V.

Indicative terms of engagement.

Subject to

Capacity and cost claims subject to.

Term sheet indicative only Issued to qualified enquiries

  1. i.

    Qualified sign-off. Partner sign-off remains with the qualified individual. ICAEW and ACCA responsibilities unchanged.

  2. ii.

    Engagement-risk filter. High-risk files (going-concern indicators, complex groups, new clients) remain partner-led by default.

  3. iii.

    Supported practice stack. Xero, CCH, IRIS or Sage on the bookkeeping and production side. Standardised TB and working-paper formats on submission.

  4. iv.

    Early-access pricing. Tiered by annual engagement volume. Onboarding cohort locked at agreed rate before general release.

By prior invitation only

Pricing and priority locked for the early cohort.

UK accountancy is mid-consolidation and multiples are moving. Infinite Accountant is released cohort by cohort — pricing holds for firms onboarded before general release.

By prior invitation only.

Introductions by referral. Demonstrations, under NDA, on one of your own engagements.

Jack Ross Chartered Accountants · Infinite Accountant
Built inside
Jack Ross Chartered Accountants, Manchester · est. 1948.
Calibrated to
Companies Act 2006 · HMRC corporation tax · FRS 105 · FRS 102 · IFRS.
Aligned with
ICAEW and ACCA quality-monitoring expectations.