Saturday, 15 February 2014

How to sign a PDF using Digital signature

September is usually a busy season for most of the professionals as it is the Tax Audit time. The clients usually come at peak time & we have to get their books audited & that too in time.

CBDT has made many changes in the way Tax Audit has to furnished by the Chartered Accountant. The Important change being that the Audit report has to submit Electronically. The other thing is we now have to upload the Balance Sheet & Profit & Loss A/c in PDF Format. These have to be attested by the Auditor & the client.

Though there is no clear instructions from the tax department that whether both Auditor & client has to sign the Balance sheet & Profit & Loss A/c, it is usually done by most of the Chartered Accountants.

Now here comes the difficulty. The Client usually approaches at peak hours & the CA does not have the time & patience to get them printed & signed.

The Shortcut way to do is to make the PDF of the Financial statements & attach the Digital signature which is in .pfx format & upload it to the income tax site. This makes the work a lot simpler as the statements are signed both by the Client & the CA.

Now to get the PDF signed using Digital signature you need to attach it to the PDF file. For this, you need a program called PDF signer.

This is a pretty cool program that allows you to attach your .pfx file to the PDF. You can attach .pfx file to a single PDF or a folder as a whole.

It also allows you to place the signature at Right, Top, Below if you want to make it visible.
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1 comment:

  1. A very helpful post! I will probably try it on my digital signature PDF software. Is it also useful for account managers paperwork during the year?

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