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Papers is Denari’s workpaper and trial balance product. A binder is one engagement for one client entity in one period (a November close, a 2025 tax return, a Q3 sales tax filing), and it holds everything that engagement needs: the trial balance, the documents that support it, the adjustments you make, the comments you leave, and the review that signs it off.
Your firm needs to have the Denari Papers component enabled in order to use it. If you can’t see Papers in the product switcher and have questions, please contact the Denari or IT admin at your firm.
A Papers trial balance: accounts nested under Balance Sheet and Income Statement with Prelim, Adj's, Adjusted, Reclass, Ending, PP and Diff PP columns, a search count, and an out-of-balance warning.

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Two shapes of binder

Almost everything in Papers follows from which of these you picked when you created the binder. A workpaper-only binder is the same product with the accounting tabs hidden. If you don’t need to tie out a balance, you don’t carry the machinery for it. See Create a binder.

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The arc of an engagement

Papers is built around one loop, and every page in this section is a step in it.
1

Start the binder

Create it fresh, or roll forward last period’s so its documents and folder structure come with it.
2

Bring in the numbers

Import the trial balance from QuickBooks Online, or from a CSV or Excel file.
3

Bring in the support

Upload workpapers, or pull reports straight from QBO without leaving Denari.
4

Tie it out

Reconcile each account against its support. Denari AI suggests the match; you approve or correct it.
5

Adjust

Post journal entries and fix accounts in the chart of accounts.
6

Review

Comment, approve, then submit for review.
7

Deliver

Export financials, the trial balance, journal entries, or the whole document set.

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Learn it in seven steps

The binder workspace

The tabs, the header, and what each one is for.

Find your work

Filters, Just For Me, and saving the view you live in.

Create a binder

Every field, and what picking a type commits you to.

The trial balance

Import it, then read the grid that everything else hangs off.

Reconcile an account

The AI tie-out, and how to make it work for you.

Journal entries

Adjust, reclass, eliminate, and sync back to QBO.

Submit for review

The preparer/reviewer handoff.
The single highest-leverage habit in Papers is naming your workpapers well. The AI tie-out reads filenames when it suggests reconciliations, so Fixed assets 053125.pdf gets you a correct suggestion where download.pdf gets you a guess. See Reconcile an account.