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The month-end close checklist

The seven steps that turn messy daily entries into trustworthy monthly numbers.

Daily bookkeeping is fast and slightly messy — invoices recorded between phone calls, receipts entered in batches. That is fine, because once a month the books get a proper tidy-up called the month-end close. Only after the close are the numbers trusted enough to build the reports you learned to read in Module 2.

The seven steps

Every company's checklist differs in detail, but the skeleton is remarkably constant. Here is Rosa's, in the order the work actually flows:

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