Automation For Accountants
By Accountants
We automate audit, accounting, tax, finance & corporate secretarial processes
SKYBOTS Singapore is a consulting company specialising in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), automation and analytics for audit, tax, accounting, finance and corporate secretarial processes.
We help your company to:
Streamline processes
Automate manual and repetitive tasks
Eliminate human errors
Increase productivity
Skybots was founded by Daryl Aw who is a pioneer of RPA in the accountancy sector in Singapore. He was awarded the Uipath Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in 2024. As ex-auditors and accountants, we truly empathize with your pain points. We build user-centric products to help companies maximise productivity in the workplace. With our solutions, you can eliminate manual and tedious processes and save time.
We use various FREE RPA and automation software so there is no recurring software cost for our clients. We also conduct a 2 day face-to-face practical taining on RPA (Uipath, Powerautomate), VBA, Copilot or ChatGPT. Participants will be able to automate your own tasks after the training.
Connect with us today for a free consultation.
Skybots featured in The Business Times on 4 October 2023 https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/singapore/smes/accounting-bots-help-smaller-firms-save-time
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Solutions for Auditors
Automation of the Financial Statements from the TB to the word FS. Use AI to map TB and generate ratios for analytical review
Calculate sample size, select samples and populate sampes into TOD templates
SSQM Dashboard to track quality risks, responses and implementation plans
JE testing Robot - Standard tests such as searching the description for key words and others. Use AI to classify JEs
Register for training, track attendence, prepare certifications, dashboard of training hours and prepare ACRA training report
Track staff timesheets and analyse recoverability of engagements and time charged per engagement per staff
Integrated system to track independence declarations, archival deadlines, other important deadlines and send reminders for the deadlines
Extract the exchange rates from MAS and prepares the exchange rate reasonablness test template
Extract Bizfile information, search through Biz4ex, download the PDF results and identify matches
Extract Bizfile information, search through SentroWeb, download the PDF results and identify matches
Depreciation Reasonableness test - mapping the FA register and calculating depreciation
CPF Reasonableness test - map the payroll register and auto calculate CPF
Prepare bank confirmations and authorisation letters and attach them into customised emails for each client
Prepare audit completion documents and all other confirmations
Send customised stocktake emails with attachments to audit clients
Robot consolidates the client stocktake details. Robot will allocate the stocktakes fairly to auditors based on experience, availability , proximity to stocktake location and workload.
Track performance appraisals, consolidate, rank staff and splitting of bonus
Skybots Leave System: Apply for leave, approve leave, update team calendars, track leave balances
Audit Client requires all documents to have passwords. Password Robot removes and adds passwords for all documents
Performance of certain audit procedures specific to audit clients (eg grant audits, gov audits, prepare AWPs etc)
Solutions for Tax Professionals
Download mail for tax clients from the IRAS website
Download Statement of Accounts and Penalties for tax clients from the IRAS website
Prepare draft tax schedules
Prepare tax computation confirmation from tax computation for client to sign
Solutions for Accountants & Finance Professionals
Data entry: Copy from excel and paste data into an accounting system
Extract details from bank statements into excel
Robot reads every bank transaction in the bank statement and classifies them into different categories such as different types of expenses or revenue streams. Robot prepares the different reports with the summary per classification
Robot verifies CPF calculations on the CPF website calculator and identifies any exceptions
Excel automation such as revenue calculations for the finance department
Automation of the Financial Statements from the TB to the word FS. Use AI to map TB and generate ratios for analytical review
Download of reports and schedules from XERO, Quickbooks or MYOB and compile into one excel file.
Extract from PDF: Eg Read ACRA's newly incorporated companies list and prepare flyers for all of them
Extraction of GL listing from XERO, Quickbooks or MYOB, extract out the details for each GL account and paste into the different schedules
Extracting data from Website to prepare Management Reports (eg key KPI metrics from various reports into a weekly report)
Downloading of reports from various e-commerce websites (eg lazada, shopee etc) and compile into the sales report
Downloading of AR Aging, sort debtors and prepare an email to each debtor with the outstanding invoices to chase for payment
Preparation of reconciliation of exception reports by checking against the source files
Checking of purchases against approval matrix
Reconciliation of delivery statuses between Acc software and logistics partner's platform
Preparation of payroll schedules
Solutions for Corporate Secretarial Professionals
Prepare corporate secretarial forms (eg AGM, Director Resolutions, Incorporation etc). Track and send email reminders for ECI, AGM, Annual Returns filing and Tax filing deadlines
Extract Bizfile information, search through Sentro Web, download the PDF results and identify matches
Extract Bizfile information, search through Biz4ex, download the PDF results and identify matches
Extract Bizfile information, search through Google and download the results into PDF
Skybots Leave System: Apply for leave, approve leave, update team calendars, track leave balances
Sending of customised whatsapp messages to various people
Read ACRA's newly incorporated companies list and prepare flyers for all of them
Other HR, Business Development & Admin Processes
Skybots Leave System
Apply for leave, approve leave, update team calendars, track leave balances
Robot assists to connect with people on Linkedin
Sending of customised whatsapp messages to various people
Sending of customised season greetings via email
Saving all documents into a PDF and add a unique password. Send the password protected documents by email to different people
Register for training, track attendence, prepare certifications, dashboard of training hours and prepare ACRA training report
Track performance appraisals, consolidate, rank staff and splitting of bonus
RPA Training
I have an online RPA course for Uipath at The Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA)'s online learning portal - Accountify, where you will learn the different RPA fundamentals and techniques through the different accounting used cases. You can plug and play or modify the solutions immediately after the course for your own processses. The course is FREE for ISCAccountify members.
We also conduct a 2 day face-to-face practical taining on RPA (Uipath, Powerautomate), VBA, Copilot or ChatGPT. Participants will be able to automate your own tasks after the training.
About Skybots
Daryl is the founder and Managing Director of Skybots Pte Ltd. He has overseen the implementation of more than 100 robots for more than 300 organisations. In 2021, he emerged as the champion at the ISCA RPA Hackathon. In 2024, he was awarded Uipath's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title.
In his previous role as the lead in Strategic Partnerships in Singapore Polytechnic Business Innovation Centre, he led collaborations with different organisations such as the Singapore Accountancy Commission (SAC), the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) and the National Council of Social Services (NCSS) to drive digital transformation in different sectors. With 9 years of teaching experience, he has trained many students to implement automation solutions for industry partners, leading the collaboration between SP and ISCA to help SMPs adopt digital solutions in 2019 as part of IMDA’s Accountancy Industry Digital Plan.
Before joining Singapore Polytechnic, he was an auditor with EY Singapore providing auditing services to public listed and private companies in various industries. He is a Chartered Accountant with ISCA.
Skybots Team
60 Cecil Street ISCA House level 2, Meticulous Room, Singapore 049709