Every adjustment from the original contract sum to the final balance due, in the order RICS sets out, so the client can follow it without a covering letter explaining the spreadsheet.
The argument at final account is almost never about the total. It is about one adjustment the client did not expect and cannot trace.
QScope lays out the ladder: original sum, variations, omissions, provisional sums, remeasurement, dayworks, fluctuations and loss and expense, then what has been certified and what remains.
The argument at final account is almost never about the total. It is about one adjustment the client did not expect and cannot trace back to anything.
QScope lists each category on its own line, in the order RICS sets out, and prints only the ones that are not zero so the statement stays readable.
The £1,000 for variations on the account is not a lump. It is the variation register, each change valued under a named rule and tied to the instruction that authorised it.
QScope carries the approved variations into the adjusted contract sum and keeps the basis of valuation behind each one, so a challenged adjustment can be traced to its clause and its instruction.
Certified to date is deducted gross at £84,115, because retention has not been paid yet. The £4,205.75 held then comes back on its own line as a release.
QScope carries the retention through as an explicit release, matching the retention notice, so the client can see the security returned rather than quietly netted off.
Loss and expense is not subject to retention and it is not a variation. Folding it into another figure is how a £2,600 ascertainment becomes an argument at the final account.
QScope carries the ascertained total to the account on its own line, each head linked to the delay event it arose from, so the client sees what was allowed and on what basis.
Yes. Omitted work carries through as a negative adjustment, and provisional sums, remeasurement, dayworks, fluctuations and loss and expense each have their own line so the client can see what moved and why.
Because retention has not been paid yet, so it is added back on the next line as a release. Deducting net would quietly lose the retention from the account. The statement shows both steps rather than hiding the arithmetic.
That is the point of it. Anticipated final cost against the approved budget is available from the first valuation, and the variance is shown as a figure rather than a colour, so it survives being printed in black and white.
Enter their purchase order or reference in the project settings and it prints on certificates and reports, so their accounts team can match it without emailing you.
Not your whole portfolio. One live job, one certificate. If it does not save you time the first time you use it, walk away and take your data with you.