Month-end close checklist

Checklist

Your own close tasks, with an owner, a date and a status you mark.

Suggestions, and the word is load-bearing

A checklist presented as a standard is a checklist somebody feels obliged to complete, including the parts that do not apply to them. These arrive as editable rows and the note above the list says so on the page, not only in the small print.

It does no accounting

No posting, no ledger, no accruals, no financial statements. This tracks whether things got done and by whom. What those things are, and how they are done, belongs to whoever does your books.

An owner and a date on each line

The two fields that turn a list into a process. A close that is late is usually late in one specific place, and a list with names against the rows is the only way to see where.

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A task list you edit. The starting tasks are suggestions, not requirements, and follow no accounting standard. CompliMaint posts nothing, closes no ledger, produces no financial statement and gives no accounting or tax advice. Everything runs on your device.

Questions people ask

Is the starting list an accounting standard?
No. It is a set of ordinary administrative tasks a small operation tends to do at a month end, offered so the page is not empty. It follows no framework, satisfies no requirement and can be deleted entirely.
Does it close the books?
No. It posts nothing, closes no ledger, computes no balance and produces no financial statement. It is a list of things people have to do, with somebody’s name against each one.
Can I change the tasks?
All of them. Every starter task arrives as a normal row — rename it, give it to somebody else, date it, or remove it. Add whatever your own close actually involves.
Does it carry forward to next month?
Each period is its own set of rows against the same subject, so last month’s record stays as it was. Nothing is copied automatically, because a task list that copied itself would quietly reintroduce a step somebody deliberately dropped.
Who is it for?
Whoever actually does the close — an office manager, a bookkeeper, an owner. It is deliberately not written for an accounting department, because the businesses using this product usually do not have one.