Final Account Reconciliation Agent

At the end of a contract, the quantity surveyor must agree the final account: original sum, approved variations, remeasured items, provisional sums and payments made. Gaps lead to long disputes. At practical completion, this agent gathers the contract, variation register, remeasurement records and payment certificates, and builds the draft final account. It compares it with the contractor's claimed account. Every item must be backed by an instruction or measurement; no instruction means no variation. Provisional sums are replaced with actual cost. It lists items to agree and updates after each meeting. It calculates retention release and final payment from the actual completion certificate. The quantity surveyor signs the final account. Edge case: retention dates use the actual certificate date, not the planned one.