Finance Close Checklist

Purpose

Orchestrate a monthly or quarterly close from sub-ledger cutoff through period lock. The deliverable is a day-by-day calendar with owners, dependencies, and sign-off gates — the close as a control, not as a scramble.

Scope Constraints

• Produces the close calendar, accrual schedule, sign-off matrix, and post-close adjustment log; does not post entries (handoff to finance-journal-entries) or perform individual reconciliations (handoff to finance-reconciliation).
• Covers monthly and quarterly close; year-end / annual report close adds disclosure work routed through the RegRep specialist.
• Does not produce variance commentary itself — that handoff goes to finance-variance-analysis.

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