When it comes to financial reporting, clarity and accuracy aren’t optional - they’re mission critical. And yet, many teams still cobble together their annual and quarterly filings with tools built for a different era - or a different job.
One question comes up again and again: "How does Inscope stack up against Workiva?"
The short answer? We don’t.
Not because Workiva isn’t a good product - but because we’re solving different problems for different parts of the process.
Workiva was Built for Filing
Workiva has become the go-to platform for XBRL tagging, SEC submission, and collaborative markup for filings. If your team needs a WYSIWYG editor for final filing documents and tagging metadata before hitting submit to EDGAR - Workiva does that well.
It’s an end-of-process tool.
But that’s not where the real work happens.
Inscope is Built for Preparation and Review
Inscope focuses on the messy middle—the weeks (or months) leading up to the filing.
We help finance and accounting teams:
✅ Build financial statements directly from ERP data and workbooks
✅ Apply formatting and rounding logic
✅ Roll forward prior-year disclosures with AI
✅ Recalculate, cross-foot, and check consistency across tables and narratives
✅ Collaborate internally without overwriting or losing context
Inscope ensures that when it’s time to file, your financials are already accurate, internally consistent, and audit-ready.
The Real Risk Isn’t in the Filing
Filing is procedural. Preparation is judgment-driven. And that’s where errors happen - rounding inconsistencies, stale disclosures, broken cross-footing, or a last-minute edit that throws everything off.
Inscope is designed to catch and fix these issues before the SEC or your auditors do. And unlike Workiva, we integrate directly with your ERP and workbooks to maintain a live source of truth.
Use the Right Tool for the Right Job
Workiva helps you file. Inscope helps you get the numbers right before you do.
If you’re still using Word, Excel, or duct-taped workflows to prepare your financials - and only seeing issues at the 11th hour—we should talk.
Because the best time to fix a mistake isn’t after the fact. It’s before it ever gets into your draft.
Interested in seeing how Inscope works before the filing starts? Book a demo!