Financial Close
Not a button: forty to three hundred tasks in an order where half cannot start until another has finished, against a date somebody promised a board.
13 steps · 10 questions · 8 screens on this shelf
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Workspace
Close Cockpit
The wizard: sub-ledgers, allocations, settlements, accruals, valuation, the general ledger, then sign-off — with the runs it can actually perform, and a phase that refuses to advance while a blocking task is outstanding.
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Financial Closes
One month’s instance of the checklist, with real dates and real people.
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Records
Close Tasks
What has to happen, in what order, by whom. A task that is not ready refuses to start with the names of what it is waiting for.
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Close Checks
The evidence. A reconciliation task that says "done" and nothing else is why closes get re-performed at audit.
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Close Templates
What we do every month, in what order, and who owns each step.
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Close Checklist
One task in the template. The phase is what the wizard turns into a step, and an automated task names the run it performs.
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Recurring Entries & Accruals
An accrual reverses on the first day of the next period; a recurring entry does not. Getting that backwards doubles a cost every month, which is why it is a field rather than a habit.
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Currency Revaluation
Monetary balances restated at the closing rate. Run AFTER the sub-ledgers are closed — revaluing balances that are about to change is a wrong answer arrived at efficiently.
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