Working demonstrationClose & reporting · Bookkeeping, accounting & fractional-CFO firms

Month-End Close Checklist

The monthly close, tracked to a tie-out and held for sign-off. The month-end close: tasks grouped by area with owners, a progress meter, and a debit and credit tie-out that reaches in balance, with one blocked task and the finished package held for a person.

Try it: check tasks done and watch the progress meter and the debit/credit tie-out reach in balance. One task stays held for a person, and the finished close package is held for sign-off, never released.

Synthetic sample data. The tie-out is derived from the checklist, not asserted.

The instrument. Try it.

Month-End Close · Rivertown Coffee Co. (SAMPLE) · March 2026sample data · nothing is released
Tasks done0 / 11
Complete0%
Held for a person1
Tie-outOut

11 tasks you can check here across 6 areas · 1 task is held for a person and cannot be checked here

Close progress0 of 11 tasks · 0%

Bank reconciliations · 0/2

Accounts receivable · 0/2

Accounts payable · 0/2

Payroll · 0/2

Accruals · 0/1

Owner distribution entryOwner distribution needs a partner note before it can post. Held for a person.held for partner

Reports · 0/2

Sample client: Rivertown Coffee Co. (SAMPLE), closed by Ledgerline Bookkeeping (SAMPLE) · as of 2026-03-31 · all figures invented · nothing is released or sent

What this demonstration shows

  • What enters

    The close task list for one client and month, with each task's owner and the trial-balance figures.

  • Where a person decides

    A person checks each task done and prepares the close package for sign-off.

  • What is held, not sent

    One task is held for the partner, and the prepared close package is held for sign-off. Nothing is released or sent.

  • What is logged

    Every task checked or reopened, and the package hold, is recorded in an audit history.

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