In v25.1 or later, you can validate the language accuracy in your financial statements directly within the Financial Statement Suite using Spell Check. This removes the need for external tools to ensure language accuracy. Spell Check automatically analyzes the text, highlights errors, and provides suggestions, helping you improve efficiency and boost quality.
FSS is a separate paid DataSnipper add-on module that automatically analyzes your financial statements and helps you perform and document financial statement procedures quickly, while relying on your professional judgement.
Prerequisites
v25.1 or later
Financial Statement Suite add-on module
Video tutorial
What the video covers
The video shows how to enable Spell Check when starting a new tick and tie project and how to review and place tickmarks on the spelling suggestions FSS identifies.
Step-by-step guide
Click the Financial Statement Suite button in the top right-hand corner of the DataSnipper tab in Excel. Alternatively, launch FSS directly from your desktop by creating a shortcut or pinning it to your taskbar.
Financial Statement Suite opens in a new window. Click the blue button to start a new tick and tie. Note that Spell Check does not work for imported projects; you need to create a new project and enable Spell Check.
When you start a new tick and tie project, make sure you tick the box to Enable Spell Check. Select the language of your document from the drop-down menu.
Once you have opened your project, you will see the overview page, including all the tests you can perform in FSS (Mathematical Accuracy, Internal Consistency, Spell Check, Prior Year Consistency, and Version Compare).
DataSnipper automatically places suggestions of valid totals and errors. By hovering over the numbers, you can quickly analyze the suggestions and place tickmarks, based on your professional judgement. The same logic applies to language accuracy checks: FSS automatically identifies spelling mistakes and places suggestions (highlighted in red, with red underlining). You can hover over the Spell Check suggestions and place your tickmarks. When certain misspelled words occur multiple times within the document, FSS automatically identifies them and ignores them. You can find all these instances in the Ignored tab, from where you can choose to move them to the Suggestions or Findings.
If you want to validate a spelling mistake (verify that it is indeed incorrect), click on the suggestion within your document viewer to place your tickmark. Once you place the tickmark, you will notice the tickmark SP is applied to the beginning of the line, and the suggestion has moved to the Findings.
Once you have reviewed the Spell Check suggestions, the tickmarks you have placed appear in the Findings sidebar with an automated comment.
You can click on either the SP tickmark at the start of the line or the underlined word to open the tickmark flyout and make any edits (for example, remove the tickmark).
Applying multiple tickmarks at once
If you want to apply multiple Spell Check tickmarks at once, you can do that using the drop-down menu in the upper left corner. You can apply multiple tickmarks in four ways:
Apply tickmarks to the current page.
Apply all the tickmarks to the document.
Apply all suggested correct tickmarks to the document.
Apply all suggested incorrect tickmarks to the document.
Applying multiple tickmarks at once can be enabled or disabled on a company level. If you do not see this drop-down menu, your company admin disabled this feature for your organization.