CA Practice & Software Glossary
Key terminology and regulatory concepts used across our independent software audits, feature rubrics, and comparison benchmarks.
Statutory Notice Auto-Sync
The automated background scraping and downloading of departmental notices (such as GST ASMT-10, DRC-01, Income Tax 143(1), 148, and TRACES TDS notices) directly from government portals without requiring manual portal logins by article assistants.
MCA Rule 3(1) Audit Trail Edit Log
Statutory requirement under the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 requiring accounting software to record an unalterable audit log of every transaction modification, timestamp, and user identity.
CCA Class 3 Digital Signature (DSC)
The highest assurance digital certificate standard licensed by the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA) for statutory MCA, Income Tax, GST, and e-tendering filings in India.
Unbilled Work-in-Progress (WIP)
The accumulated value of billable staff and partner hours spent on client engagements that have not yet been invoiced.
Credentials Vault
An encrypted database module inside a practice management platform for securely storing client login credentials for GST, Income Tax, TRACES, and MCA portals with role-based masking.