Generating the report
What must be true before Generate is enabled, and the Excel and PDF you get.
Producing the Excel workbook and the bank-ready PDF.
Before Generate is enabled
Validation errors block generation. Warnings do not.
- ErrorsMust be cleared
Something that would make the report incorrect.
- WarningsYour judgement
Worth a look. They do not mean the report is wrong.
- Unmapped ledgersClear these
Not an error, but a balance sitting outside your totals.
Tip
The confirmation
You are shown what generating will cost before it runs. Nothing is deducted until you confirm.
Generating this report costs credits. You are shown the exact cost in the confirmation before it runs, and the current price list is on Settings → Credits and billing.
Every version is charged
Warning
Unlike a certificate — charged once, ever — a CMA report is charged per generated version. Correcting a figure and generating again costs again. Get the workspace right first.
The practical habit: use the workspace as the review surface, not the generated file. Everything you need to check is on screen, and checking it there is free.
What you get
- An Excel workbook
In the bank template's layout.
- A PDF
Bank-ready, kept with the version it belongs to.
Both are built from the workspace at the moment you generate, in one pass, so they cannot disagree with what you reviewed or with each other. Both carry the date you generated them as the Date of Report.
Files save under the client's name, the year and the version: Sharma_Traders_CMA_FY2025-26_v2.xlsx and the matching .pdf.
Versions
Each generation is kept, with the time it was produced. Earlier versions stay downloadable, Excel and PDF alike: useful when a bank refers to the copy you sent last month. Opening a version's PDF never costs anything; only generating does.
A version can be deleted if it was produced in error.
Note
Versions generated before September 2026 kept only their Excel. If the report has not been saved since such a version was generated, its PDF is prepared the first time you open it and kept from then on. If the report has changed since, no PDF can be made that matches that Excel, and the PDF tile says so. Generate again for a matching pair.
Going back to edit
Return to the workspace at any time. Your figures are as you left them, and generating again produces a new version alongside the old.
The report's status stays Generated once it has been generated once.
A pre-generation checklist
The unmapped panel is empty
Every AI cell has been reviewed
Form I and the annexures are filled where they apply
Projections are entered, not left as placeholders
Ratios look defensible
Validation shows no errors
Last updated 30 Sept 2026
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