We built a full BC strata corporation audit file with every answer documented in advance, then ran it through Condo Audit Pro from the council's first upload to the CPA's close.
A strata audit in British Columbia has its own vocabulary and its own rules: a strata council, strata lots, unit entitlement, the contingency reserve fund and the depreciation report under the Strata Property Act. To show how Condo Audit Pro handles that, we built a BC strata file ourselves, wrote down every answer in advance and ran it through the platform screen by screen.
The test file
The strata corporation is fictional: 250 strata lots in a Burnaby tower, in three types, with fees shared by unit entitlement totalling 16,920. The management company changed on July 1, so there are two managers' ledgers. A building envelope project is under way, with a loan and a special levy.
The council's records include both ledgers, the trial balance, the approved budget, a full year of statements for each bank account, the strata plan with its schedule of unit entitlement, the depreciation report, minutes, both management contracts and letters from the lawyer and the insurer.
| What was planted | The documented answer |
|---|---|
| A trial balance that does not balance | Out by $1,691 |
| An amount in the trial balance with no ledger support | $2,375 |
| A supplier invoice keyed short in the ledger | $684 |
| Bank items: a fee, an e-transfer, a bounced payment, a duplicate, an unissued cheque | Each one named |
What happened
The council uploaded its records against a checklist built for a BC strata. The software read the unit roster straight from the strata plan, all 250 lots with their unit entitlement, and checked the total against the plan's own total.
The trial balance difference was explained in two parts: $2,375 with no ledger support, less $684 for the invoice keyed short. The invoice match found the same $684 from the other side: the invoice said $6,982.50 and the ledger said $6,298.50. The bank comparison named each reconciling item, and each became its own proposed entry with its working, for the CPA to accept one by one.
Working papers and controls documentation arrived pre-filled from the firm's own answers, in British Columbia wording, for the CPA to review. The statements were produced with the operating fund, the contingency reserve fund and the special levy.
The result
Every finding matched the answer key. The statements showed total assets of about $2.2 million, liabilities of about $685,000 and net assets of about $1.5 million, exactly as documented. The CPA made every judgment and closed the file; the software did the preparation.
The second year was then started from the first: last year's closing fund balances were offered as openings, the prior-year column came across, and the roster came forward from the strata plan, all for the CPA to confirm.
Common questions
Was this a real strata corporation?
No. It is a test file we built ourselves, with fictional names and figures, so that every result could be checked against a known answer.
Can I see it?
Yes. Watch the complete BC walkthrough, or book a demo and bring one of your own strata files.
Where can I read more about BC?
Written by the Condo Audit Pro team at Yabuh Ltd. The platform is the result of 1,000+ hours of development, and its audit logic is built on Canadian Auditing Standards (CAS), ASNPO and each province’s condominium statute. The firm’s own CPA performs and signs the audit. More about how we built it.
The platform that prepares the file. The CPA decides.
Built for condominium and strata audits across Alberta, BC, and Ontario. Document collection, GL matching, two-fund classification, fee testing — handled before the CPA opens the file.