For finance teams seeking recurring close and reporting support, including businesses with several reporting entities.
Close preparation
Account schedules, reconciliations and open items brought together for review.
Start with
Trial balance, reconciliations, close checklist and responsible reviewers.
What comes back
Account schedules, reconciliations and open items brought together for review.
Financial statements
Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow reports from your accounting records.
Start with
Reviewed accounting records and the required statement formats.
What comes back
Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow reports from your accounting records.
Management reporting
Agreed reporting packs that make changes and outstanding questions visible.
Start with
Agreed reporting measures, recipients, comparison periods and open questions.
What comes back
Agreed reporting packs that make changes and outstanding questions visible.
Make the handover and review points clear.
Agree the close calendar
Confirm formats, recipients and review dates.
Assemble the records
Bring reconciliations and account schedules together.
Resolve open items
Route accounting questions to the appointed reviewer.
Prepare the reporting pack
Present agreed statements and outstanding matters for approval.
Keep ownership clear.
Your appointed reviewer approves accounting judgments and reports. Consolidation, technical accounting and statutory filing require separately confirmed responsibilities.
Responsibilities to confirm in the engagement
Work area
Preparation support
Review and approval
Close inputs
Collect schedules and reconciliations.
Account owners confirm their inputs.
Accounting questions
List unresolved balances and treatment questions.
The appointed reviewer approves judgments and adjustments.
Reporting pack
Prepare agreed statements and management reports.
Your authorized owner approves distribution and final reports.
Make unresolved questions visible.
Keep the evidence, next action and responsible reviewer together.
Show the affected report and ask the owner to resolve the dependency.
A balance changes after review
Identify affected reports and return them for approval.
Start with the records you already have.
Use the first conversation to define the work and the information needed.
Current trial balance and reconciliations
Your reporting format and close timetable
Entity structure and reporting recipients
Turn the month’s activity into useful reports.
Connect reconciled records with the reports your management team needs. Define the close calendar, statement format and review process before recurring reporting work begins.
Read the detailed scope
Close preparation
Account schedules, reconciliations and open items brought together for review.
Financial statements
Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow reports from your accounting records.
Management reporting
Agreed reporting packs that make changes and outstanding questions visible.
Questions about reporting & close
Which reports should we request?
Specify the statements, management pack, comparison periods and recipients your team uses. Agree the formats and review calendar.
Does multi-entity reporting include consolidation?
Confirm that separately. Group structures, currencies, eliminations and technical review can require additional specialist scope.