Month-End Close Process

A faster, calmer, more reliable month-end.

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What this involves

A structured month-end routine that helps produce timely, accurate financial information for better decisions.

A close that takes six weeks is not a reporting problem, it is a process problem. We map what actually happens now, find where the time goes, and rebuild it as a calendar with owners, deadlines and a checklist. The target is a close date you can put in the diary and then meet.

What you get

What’s included

  • Your current close mapped step by step, with timings
  • Bottlenecks, rework and single points of failure identified
  • A close calendar with owners and deadlines
  • A checklist covering accruals, prepayments, cut off and revenue recognition
  • A target close date agreed and then tracked
  • The process documented so it does not live in one person's head

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Not sure which you need? The strategy call maps it in about twenty minutes.

Where does your finance function stand today?

A short conversation will tell you whether this is the right place to start, or whether something earlier in the sequence needs fixing first.

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