Bookkeeping & month-end close

Each period a bookkeeper drafts journal entries and accruals, builds roll-forwards, reconciles the ledger, and assembles a close packet a reviewer foots — then lands one approval where you sign off the close.

Saves you ~1.2 h / week

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How it works

Trigger
On the “Monthly close run” schedule.
Job
Reconcile and flag, draft entries and roll-forwards, review and foot, assemble the packet.
Outcome
An organized finance workpack with reconciled records.

What it installs

Agents 3

  • Bookkeeper

    Owns the recurring close: journal entries, the accrual schedule, balance-sheet roll-forwards, reconciliation, and the close package each period.

  • Close Reviewer

    Reviews the close packet for balance, footing, and policy consistency before it reaches the human.

  • Bookkeeping & month-end close Quality Reviewer

    Checks primary evidence, domain controls, deliverable completeness, and communication quality, stopping the run when the work is wrong, unsupported, incomplete, or uncertain.

Teams 1

  • Close Team

    A bookkeeper who drafts the close and a reviewer who foots and verifies it.

Workflows 1

  • Month-end close

    Reconcile and flag, draft entries and roll-forwards, review and foot, assemble the packet, and approve.

Documents 1

  • Accrual schedule & roll-forward workbook

    Your editable workbook of recurring accrual policies, the chart-of-accounts mapping, and the roll-forward accounts you carry each period. The agent reads this as input and applies its skills to build the schedule.

Goals 1

  • Books closed accurately every period

    Keep the books closed accurately and on time on the chosen cadence. Success looks like: Each period closes with a reviewer-footed, human-approved close packet in which every journal entry balances, every roll-forward foots, and reconciliation gaps and flagged items are all resolved or explicitly accepted.

Skills 6

  • journal-entry

    Prepare balanced journal entries with proper debits, credits, account coding, and audit-ready supporting detail for accruals, depreciation, prepaids, payroll, and revenue recognition. Adapted from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/journal-entry.

  • close-month

    Run the month-end close end to end: reconcile the ledger against payment processors, flag gaps and suspicious entries, write the P&L narrative, and export a close packet — with approval gates and no auto-fixing. Adapted from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/close-month.

  • month-end-prep

    Walk the owner through the close step by step with gates at each stage: confirm the period, pull P&L and register, reconcile processors, detect duplicates, check receipts, sign-off gate, narrate, and export. Adapted from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/month-end-prep.

  • accrual-schedule

    Build the period-end accrual schedule: one row per policy accrual with basis, period portion, already-booked, this-period accrual, and cited support, plus a draft (never posted) journal entry. Adapted from anthropics/financial-services/accrual-schedule.

  • roll-forward

    Build a balance-sheet roll-forward that ties beginning to ending — additions, accruals, reversals, payments, reclasses, FX — with every line tied to a general ledger query and a hard foot check that surfaces (never plugs) any unexplained delta. Adapted from anthropics/financial-services/roll-forward.

  • quickbooks-automation

    Automate QuickBooks-style bookkeeping: bank-feed categorization rules, receipt matching, invoice and recurring-invoice handling, bank reconciliation, and standard financial reports (P&L, balance sheet, AR/AP aging). Adapted from claude-office-skills/skills/quickbooks-automation.

Schedules 1

  • Monthly close run

    Runs the month-end close on the schedule you choose. ## Professional quality control Objective: complete the recurring Bookkeeping & month-end close operating cycle and deliver a review-ready, evidence-backed result rather than merely report that the schedule ran. Start by fixing the review period, reading the current source records and prior run, confirming required access, and listing missing or contradictory inputs. Execute the bundle's full authored method in order, retaining source, calculation, command, or before/after evidence for load-bearing findings. Separate facts from interpretation, apply supplied policy without inventing thresholds, and stop any branch that requires missing authority or an unconfirmed human rule. Produce the complete named deliverable plus an evidence record, assumptions, exceptions, unresolved questions, and concrete next actions with owners where the method calls for them. Run the workflow's independent verifier checks and fix failures before requesting approval. The task is done only when every requested section and quality criterion passes or a blocker is explicit; silence, inaccessible data, or polished prose is not proof of completion. Recompute material figures independently from raw records; verify period, currency, sign, formula, rounding, tie-outs, and roll-forwards. Distinguish accounting policy from assumptions and route judgment to the human. Financial narrative must explain drivers plainly without generic AI phrasing, invented precision, or certainty unsupported by the books. The human retains authority over publication, sending, spend, signing, merging, deployment, and other consequential external actions.

Folders 1

  • Bookkeeping & Close

Requirements

  • Browser access to your accounting tool — The agent works in your accounting tool through its web interface in your browser and pauses for your approval before making any changes. Until you connect it, it works from attached exports and the relevant document.
  • Period-end source data — Trial balance, subledger detail, fixed-asset and prepaid schedules, comp/accrual policy list, and payment-processor settlements (PayPal/Stripe/Square) for the period being closed.

Setup guide

How to Automate the Month-End Close

A practical guide to closing the books with agents: reconciliation, accrual schedules, footed roll-forwards, and a sign-off that stays with you.

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