Skills / Document extraction and conversion, Tax

Schedule K-1 → standardized summary

What it does

Extracts Schedule K-1 data box by box into a workbook a preparer can key from and a reviewer can re-perform. Partnership, S corporation, and trust K-1s. Every amount keeps the code that sits next to it, plus its source file and page.

That code is the whole point. A K-1 has dozens of boxes and many of them look interchangeable and are not — box 13 code W and box 13 code A go to entirely different places on a 1040. The number gets typed correctly and lands on the wrong return line, which is invisible on review because the figure agrees to the K-1.

State schedules are bucketed separately from federal amounts. State K-1s reuse the federal box numbers, so mixing them double-counts into the footing test.

What it proves

K-1 season fails in two directions, and neither is a data-entry problem. Four tests run before a clean summary is produced:

  • Footing to the entity return — where the entity return or its Schedule K is available, the sum of each box across all K-1s must equal the entity's total for that line. This is the strongest test available and most preparers never run it.
  • Ownership percentages total 100.000% — profit, loss, and capital each sum across the full set. A set that sums to 94% is missing a K-1.
  • Recipient reconciliation in both directions — expected against received, so an absent K-1 surfaces even without the percentage test.
  • Every amount carries its box and code, plus file and page.

Nothing is inferred. An illegible or ambiguous figure becomes an exception, never a back-solved plug. If the entity return is not available, the summary is marked unfooted and its scope stated — an unfooted summary is never presented as reconciled.

What you get

Seven tabs:

  1. Summary — entity, year, K-1 count, footing result, percentage totals, missing recipients, exception count.
  2. Footing — box by box: sum of K-1s, entity Schedule K total, difference. Differences read 0.00 or the workbook is marked failed.
  3. K-1 Matrix — recipients down, box and code across. One glance shows which recipient is missing an item everyone else received — how a skipped supplemental statement surfaces.
  4. Detail — every extracted row with source file and page, for re-performance.
  5. State Schedules — apportioned amounts and withholding by recipient. The tab most often missing from a manual summary, and where nonresident withholding gets decided.
  6. Recipient Reconciliation — expected versus received, with the change in each percentage and in capital where prior-year K-1s were supplied.
  7. Exceptions — illegible figures, unresolved codes, and judgment calls with page references.

Where it stops

Full TINs are rejected on input — the extract works from the last four digits.

It reports facts and routes treatment to the person signing. An amended K-1 superseding one already on a filed return, a capital account that does not roll forward, a negative ending capital account, absent Section 199A information, a percentage that changed mid-year with no agreement amendment: each is raised with the K-1 and page, without a conclusion on how to treat it.