Excel spreadsheet help

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Hi all,

I'm having a massive brain freeze at present and wondering if anyone could help as I'm sure there's an easy solution but for whatever reason I can't get my head around it.

As part of my job, I have to check and sign off client due diligence documents (ID, proof of address & proof of funds).

At present, I use a very simple Excel spreadsheet as a mental checklist which lists all the possible documents and what to check on these, eg: Passport, does the name match? Does the DOB match? Is it certified? And I have tick boxes next to these which changes a value to TRUE, and if in a section I have all TRUE boxes it turns green, very simple but useful as a mental checklist.

Once I've done this and I have a green box in each section for each client I sign it off and don't save the document as it's not needed, it's just used as a mental checklist as a one off.

However, I've now been asked to record this data, mostly so we know what the most common reasons are for not signing off, eg; documents not being certified. I don't want to keep creating sheets every time I do it and want it all on 1 sheet.

My mind has gone blank on how I can do this, even though it sounds really simple.

Can anyone help put me out of my misery.

Thanks in advance.
 
One of the problems I'm having difficulty getting my head around is, is that if I simply didn't tick a box because a document wasn't certified for example, this would produce a FALSE value, but then I'm always going to have a FALSE values because a client doesn't have to bring in every document we accept, just one for ID, one for proof of address etc, so what I need is, is if I've ticked something for passport, eg; the names match, then for all other ID types the cell value is blank rather than FALSE, then I can count the number of FALSE values and say X number of documents were not certified, or something similar.

I'm not sure if any of this makes sense and I'm sure I'm just over thinking it.
 
Why not have a seperate tab with all the reasons. Then after your checks, anything thats failed you update the other tab.

That way you have a tally chart showing the main reasons?
 
Why not have a seperate tab with all the reasons. Then after your checks, anything thats failed you update the other tab.

That way you have a tally chart showing the main reasons?

Thank you for replying.

You know what, I was thinking about this all along, just needed reassurance for some reason, thanks again I think I'll do this.
 
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