Two different questions get asked inside an engagement, and most software answers neither.
Where is the thing I need? And what does the law actually say about this?
Ask Audcrix answers both, from inside the screen the person is already on.
Where it is, and the clicks to get there
The first answer is navigation. Ask it where something is or how to do something, and it replies with the screen, the clicks, and the steps — drawn from a knowledge base generated from the application itself, so it describes the product as it currently is rather than as a manual once described it.
The ranking is built for the people using it: light stemming, typo tolerance, phrase bonuses, and a chartered accountant's vocabulary — OB, TB, BRS, PBC and the rest — so an article typing the abbreviation they actually use gets the screen they actually want.
And when it does not know, it says so. A coverage test refuses rather than guesses, returning an honest "not sure" with the closest screens instead of a confident answer to a question it did not understand.
What the law says, quoted and cited
The second answer is knowledge: exact statements from the Act, the Rules and Audcrix's own checks, with citations.
Where a firm switches on its own model, the model is given the question and up to eight exact statements, numbered. It writes a short plain-language answer and cites a source number after every sentence. It is choosing and arranging quotes — it is not inventing the law.
It is checked before anyone sees it
This is the part that matters in an audit. Before an answer is displayed, it is refused if:
- a sentence cites nothing, or cites a source that does not exist;
- a figure — a rate, a limit, an amount, a year — is not in the source it cites. The check knows that "50 lakh" and "Rs 50,00,000" are the same figure and that "Rs 50,000" is not;
- a section, form, rule or clause it names is not in its cited sources;
- it says "not", "no" or "exempt" where none of its sources does — the measured failure of a small model, caught rather than hoped away.
An answer that fails any of those is not shown. A confident wrong answer about a threshold is worse than no answer, because somebody will act on it.
Nothing leaves the machine
There is no outside service. The model runs on a machine Audcrix runs, and it refuses any address that is not this machine or a private network. A client's books, and the questions a CA asks about them, do not travel to anyone's API.
It still answers when the licence has lapsed
Both routes stay available on a lapsed licence — deliberately, because how do I renew is the question asked most at exactly that moment.
Questions CAs ask
What can Ask Audcrix answer?
Two kinds of question. Where a screen is and the clicks to reach it, drawn from a knowledge base generated from the application itself; and what the sources say, as exact statements from the Act, the Rules and Audcrix's own checks, with citations.
Does it make up answers?
No. Where a firm's own model is switched on it is given up to eight exact numbered statements and must cite a source number after every sentence. Before an answer is shown it is refused if a sentence cites nothing, if a figure is not in the source it cites, if a section, form, rule or clause it names is absent from its cited sources, or if it says not, no or exempt where none of its sources does.
What happens when it does not know?
It says so. A coverage test refuses rather than guesses, returning an honest not sure along with the closest screens.
Does anything go to an outside service?
No. The model runs on a machine Audcrix runs and refuses any address that is not that machine or a private network, so a client's books and the questions asked about them do not leave it.
Does it understand the abbreviations a CA actually types?
Yes. The ranking carries a chartered accountant's vocabulary — OB, TB, BRS, PBC and the rest — with light stemming, typo tolerance and phrase bonuses.
Does it work if the licence has lapsed?
Yes, deliberately. Both routes stay answerable on a lapsed licence, because how do I renew is the question asked most at that moment.
Further reading
Related modules
- Review Playbooks — Set out what a review consists of — the checks, the stages, the reviewer — per kind of engagement, recorded against the work so a skipped step stays visible.
- Statutory Audit — Statutory audit software built around the Standards on Auditing — materiality, SA 530 sampling, SA 510 opening balances and confirmations, documented as the work is done.
- Accounting Checks — Completeness, cut-off, accrual and classification checks run over the whole Tally books — every verdict showing its basis, every finding exportable as a working paper.