Month-End Close Toolkit

Run the whole close from one workbook

Checklist, reconciliations, flux and journal entries, all feeding one status page that tells you whether you're ready to close. Plus the AI prompts that speed up each step, and the checks that keep them honest.

$79 one-time

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Close Status page of the toolkit showing percent complete, open reconciliations and an Open items status

What's inside

An Excel workbook and a prompt pack

The workbook has six formula-driven tabs. Yellow cells are inputs; everything else calculates. Example data shows how it works, and clears out in a few minutes.

The Close Prompt Pack (PDF) has nine prompts, each paired with a tab, including four that aren't on the free site. Every prompt tells the AI not to do the math. The workbook does that.

It also includes the free month-end reporting package, so the close and the package work together.

  • Close Status
    One page: % complete, past-due tasks, open recs, unexplained differences, unexplained flux, unapproved entries
  • Checklist
    35 close tasks by phase with owners; due dates calculate from period end by workday
  • BS Recs
    GL vs. support for every balance sheet account; anything over tolerance turns red
  • Rec Items
    Outstanding checks, timing items and errors, tied to the rec and to the JE that clears them
  • Flux Analysis
    Month-over-month and year-over-year, flagged on your $ and % thresholds; unexplained flags stay red
  • JE Log
    Every adjusting entry with support and approver; unapproved entries surface on the status page
Close checklist tab with due dates and past-due tasks highlighted
The checklist: due dates roll from the period end, and anything past due turns red.
Balance sheet reconciliation tab with one open reconciliation
Reconciliations: reconciling items flow in, and whatever's left is the unexplained difference.
Flux analysis tab with flagged lines
Flux: lines over both thresholds are flagged; red until someone explains them from the ledger.

The prompt pack

Nine prompts for the close

  1. Build a close checklist with owners and deadlines
  2. Check a balance sheet reconciliation for errors
  3. Review reconciling items before sign-off
  4. Explain income statement flux month over month
  5. Check journal entries before approval
  6. Document an accrual estimate
  7. Turn a trial balance into a reporting package
  8. Draft MD&A variance commentary
  9. Run the close retrospective

Educational tool, not professional advice. Templates are provided as-is; review every figure before relying on it.