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SANKOFA
The OHADA audit file

From the imported trial balance to the signed report, in a single file. Revised SYSCOHADA foundation, automatic consistency checks, working papers with dual sign-off — and a platform sealed off firm by firm.

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What it is

An audit platform, not one more workbook

SANKOFA replaces the stack of spreadsheets that comes with an audit engagement by a single file, where every statement derives from the imported trial balance and recalculates when it changes.

The OHADA framework, built in

99 standardised line items, 158 mapping rules for the balance sheet and 49 for the income statement, loaded at installation. Each firm receives its own copy of the framework and can adjust it without affecting the others.

Working papers with dual sign-off

Every sheet carries the preparer's sign-off and the reviewer's, with the date. The complete file prints exactly as it will be presented — not pieced together the night before the review.

A multi-firm platform

Each subscribing firm has its own files, its own framework and its own users. No data travels from one firm to another — professional confidentiality is not a configuration setting.

What it delivers

Time moves back to where judgement is

Most of the time on an engagement does not go into analysis: it goes into formatting, retyping and hunting for the right file.

What we see in firms

The file lives in a tree of workbooks: one for the trial balance, one for the cycles, one for the summary, plus the versions sent by email. When the corrected trial balance arrives late in the engagement, every file has to be reworked — and nobody knows for certain which ones actually were.

The risk is not only lost time. It is the financial statement that no longer matches the general ledger, discovered by the next statutory auditor.

What SANKOFA changes

  • The trial balance is imported once; balance sheet, income statement and cycles follow from it automatically
  • Consistency checks run on every import and flag differences before the review
  • Adjusting entries are recorded in the file, never in a separate document
  • The general ledger, matching and aged balance answer questions without pulling another export
  • The complete file and the report export to Word and Excel, fully formatted

What disappears

  • Retyping between workbooks
  • Diverging versions
  • Rework after a corrected trial balance
  • Files pieced together at review time
The path

One engagement, four phases

The software follows the normal course of an OHADA audit engagement. It imposes no method: it makes visible the one you already apply.

What the tool keeps track of for you

  • Progress by step and by cycle, visible to the whole team
  • Open items, with their owner and their due date
  • Confirmation reminders, sent and logged automatically
  • Time spent by team member and by cycle
  • Supporting documents, attached to the audit procedure that calls for them
What is inside

The modules, one by one

All included in the subscription. No module is billed separately.

Import & trial balance

Excel or CSV import, automatic mapping to line items, carry-forward of prior periods.

Financial statements

Balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement in revised SYSCOHADA format, recalculated continuously.

General ledger & matching

General and subsidiary ledgers, matching, aged balance, Sage-format statements.

Analytical review

Movements by cycle and by line item, configurable thresholds, justification of significant variances.

ISA 240 journal entry testing

Detection of unusual entries: reversals, postings outside working hours, rarely used accounts.

External confirmations

Confirmation requests to third parties, batch sending, automatic reminders and response tracking.

Working papers

Sheets by procedure, attached documents, dual preparer / reviewer sign-off, printing of the complete file.

Report & assisted drafting

Summary memorandum, uncorrected misstatements, audit opinion, formatted Word export.

Time & tracking

Time spent by team member and by cycle, step progress, dated open items.

Notifications & reminders

Deadline alerts, confirmation reminders, messages to subscribers signed in the product's name.

Accounts & security

Users by firm, roles, passwords, access log, server self-check page.

Small entities pack & templates

Small entity audit programme, annual file matrix, letter and sheet templates.

Technical stance

No external dependency

SANKOFA is written in PHP 8 with MySQL, with no third-party library at all: no package manager, no component to install.

Why this choice

An application that depends on thirty libraries also depends on thirty teams that may stop maintaining them. And it requires a server you can administer from the command line — which a firm does not always have.

Here, deployment amounts to uploading files by FTP onto ordinary shared hosting. The package carries a fingerprint of each of its files: the self-check page recalculates them on the server and reports an incomplete upload straight away, instead of letting it fail the day someone opens the page concerned.

What that means for you

  • Installation on your own hosting, or on ours, as you prefer
  • Back up and export your data at any time, without asking us
  • No forced updates: you decide when to switch over
  • Real reversibility — the database and the files are yours
Demonstration

Forty-five minutes, on a real file

No slideshow. We open the software, we import a trial balance — yours if you wish — and we go all the way to the financial statements.

How it works

  1. You describe your firm

    Number of staff, volume of engagements, current tools. Five minutes is enough.

  2. We agree a slot

    By video call or at your offices in Abidjan. Within five working days.

  3. Demonstration on your own data

    You send an anonymised trial balance; we process it during the session.

  4. Trial access

    A test firm is opened for you for thirty days, with your own credentials.

What we do not do

  • No persistent sales chasing: one reminder, then nothing more
  • No commitment asked for before the trial period ends
  • Your trial data is deleted on request

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What comes next

SANKOFA is our first piece of software

Other products are in preparation, born of the same field observations as our consulting work. If your profession suffers a gap that nothing on the market fills, tell us: that is often how a product begins.

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