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What is the difference between a workpaper and a worksheet?

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Written by Marco Fiumara
Updated over 10 months ago

Workpapers and worksheets are key components of Cimplico Workpapers, designed to help you organise and complete your jobs effectively. Here’s how they differ:

Workpapers

A workpaper represents the job or engagement as a whole. For example:

  • An annual compliance job that includes preparing financial statements and income tax returns.

  • A specific engagement requiring evidencing, calculations and verification

Each workpaper contains a collection of worksheets that break the job into manageable sections.

Worksheets

Worksheets are the individual components of a workpaper where most of the core work happens. This includes:

  • Attaching supporting evidence for specific accounts, using default worksheets.

  • Grouping together files and notes for a particular issue, using generic worksheets.

  • Performing reconciliations and calculations, by adding Calculations to a default or generic worksheet.

ℹ️ Note: You cannot create or have a worksheet without a workpaper. Worksheets always exist within a workpaper because they are tied to the broader engagement or job.

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