Prepare month-end close

Complete and review scheduled reconciliations, accruals, deferrals, receivables, adjustments, evidence, and unresolved items before publishing period results.

Field	Value
Business area	finance
Primary role	finance-billing-administrator
Frequency	monthly
Privacy sensitivity	high
Security sensitivity	high
Compliance review	needed

Trigger and handoff

Trigger: The accounting period reaches the approved close timetable.

Inputs

• Ledger and subledgers
• Reconciliation schedules
• Approved estimates and adjustments

Outputs

• Reviewed close package
• Outstanding item register
• Decision-ready financial results

Current manual methods

• Recurring spreadsheet checklist
• Email evidence
• Late journal entries

Human judgment and approvals

• Evaluate materiality

• evidence

• estimates

• and cut-off

• Explain unresolved items and result limitations

• Approval: Qualified financial owner approves journals

• Approval: reconciliations

• Approval: and close release

Failure modes

• Deadline pressure hides unreconciled balances
• Estimate is copied without current assumptions

Success metrics

• Close meets timetable with reviewer evidence
• Post-close corrections and unexplained balances decline