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Use Bkper for financial facts, OpenAccountants for cited tax rules and referrals, and AI to prepare reviewable work.

Use this path when a tax or accounting question needs grounded review. Bkper keeps the financial facts in your Book. OpenAccountants publishes source-cited tax rules and offers an accountant network. AI can organize the work, but filing, payment, and compliance decisions still need qualified review.

OpenAccountants describes its model as open rules, cited sources, human accountability. In Bkper terms: financial facts → cited rules → professional review.

Use it through Bkper

You can use OpenAccountants from Bkper through either AI path:

  • Bkper MCP — connect MCP Server, then ask your assistant to prepare a tax worksheet or find an accountant. The MCP server exposes get_tax_rules for public jurisdiction rules and find_accountants for referral candidates.
  • Bkper CLI Agent — run CLI Agent when you want local files, scripts, or repeatable worksheets. The built-in Bkper context tells the agent how to combine Bkper balance reports with live OpenAccountants rule and referral endpoints.

In both paths, Bkper supplies the Book facts from balances, reports, and supporting records. OpenAccountants supplies public jurisdiction context or referral metadata. The OpenAccountants lookup should send only the jurisdiction, such as BR, GB, US, US-CA, or CA-ON, unless you explicitly approve sharing more context.

Ask for the business outcome, not the implementation. You do not need to name OpenAccountants, MCP tools, endpoints, balances, or reports.

The assistant should clarify the jurisdiction, period, scope, and review goal. It should use Bkper balances and reports as the primary Book facts, drill into transactions only when support or reconciliation is needed, and use OpenAccountants only for public rules or referral metadata unless you approve sharing more.

How it works

  1. Ask the question. Name the jurisdiction, period, and outcome.
  2. Prepare facts from Bkper. Use balances and reports from the relevant Book as the primary tax facts. Use transaction-level detail only for support, exceptions, review, or reconciliation.
  3. Ground the rule research. Use OpenAccountants tax-rule resources for the jurisdiction and keep citations with the worksheet.
  4. Review before action. If it affects filing, payment, compliance, or a material decision, send the worksheet to a qualified accountant.

Example

For a sales-tax question:

  1. Start from Bkper balances and reports for the tax-relevant Accounts or Groups in the period.
  2. Drill into transactions only to explain unusual balances, review exceptions, or provide supporting detail.
  3. List assumptions and exceptions.
  4. Use OpenAccountants for cited jurisdiction rules.
  5. Send the worksheet and source references to a qualified accountant before filing or payment.

Roles

  • Bkper keeps the source-of-truth records: transactions, balances, Accounts, Groups, properties, files, review states, and Events.
  • OpenAccountants provides maintained, source-cited tax-rule material, a Tax Library, and an accountant network.
  • AI assistants can draft worksheets and issue lists, but should share only the jurisdiction with OpenAccountants unless you approve more context.

Bkper does not automatically send private book data, transaction details, files, tax IDs, or personal details to OpenAccountants.

What to prepare

Before handoff, prepare the smallest useful package:

  • jurisdiction, Book or entity, and period;
  • relevant balances and reports;
  • transaction-level detail only when needed for support, exceptions, review, or reconciliation;
  • assumptions, open questions, and disputed items;
  • draft, unchecked, unusual, or missing-support items;
  • supporting files only when you intentionally choose to share them.

Limits and attribution

OpenAccountants provides general tax and accounting reference material and AI-assisted working-paper tools. Bkper provides source-of-truth financial records. Neither replaces qualified professional judgment. Treat outputs as drafts until reviewed.

Tax-rule resources and accountant-network referrals are provided by OpenAccountants. Bkper does not endorse, employ, or independently vet specific accountants.