Month-End Close: Before you close

This section of Month-End Close covers Before you close. The pages are listed in the order you'd usually need them.

To…	Go to…
Where the month's close checklist comes from, how it is grouped, when it refreshes, and when it stops being editable	How the close checklist works
The difference between a check you must fix and one you can acknowledge, and the rules a month is held to before it closes	What stops a close, and what only needs a tick
Where the month list starts and ends, why closes run oldest-first, and why only the latest closed month can be reopened	Which months you can close, and in what order
Which date decides a transaction's month, what happens at clock changes and marketplace boundaries, and what changing your business timezone does to months you have already closed	Month boundaries and timezones
Work a failing close check back to green — open the records it counted, correct them, re-check, and close	Fix a failing check
Open the nine month-end reports in the close report pack and tell preliminary figures from the month's numbers of record	Read the month's reports
Pull Xero or QuickBooks' own trial balance for the month so SKU.io can compare it with yours, account by account	Capture your provider's trial balance
Use the sync panel on the Close tab to account for every transaction in the month that is not on your accounting provider yet	See why entries haven't reached your provider