Before you go · Close readiness
Score your close in two minutes
Before you decide whether any of this is relevant to your team, answer these ten questions honestly. No signup, no email — just count the yeses. Your score updates as you go.
01
Closing the revenue gap
Recognition, contract modifications, and the trail from a signed contract to recognized revenue.
01
Does your revenue team close later than the rest of the books because they're still working through contract allocations?
02
When a contract is modified mid-quarter, does someone manually determine the accounting treatment and rework the allocation in a spreadsheet?
03
If an auditor asked you to trace a signed contract to the revenue recognized on it this quarter, would that take more than fifteen minutes?
02
Closing the cash gap
Bank-to-book matching, payment application, and the clearing accounts in between.
04
Do your clearing or suspense account balances grow month over month, requiring manual cleanup before the close can finish?
05
When a customer sends one payment covering multiple invoices — or short-pays by a small amount — does someone have to match it by hand?
06
Is bank reconciliation something that happens in the last few days of close rather than continuously through the month?
03
Closing the knowledge gap
The policies, process, and controls your close quietly depends on.
07
If your controller were unreachable for an entire close cycle, would the close suffer because the team can't hold the same standard without them?
08
Are your accruals and prepaids run from spreadsheets that someone has to remember to reverse or amortize each period?
09
When you add a new entity — through acquisition or expansion — does it increase your days-to-close for at least two quarters?
10
When your auditors request workpapers, does your team spend more than a day assembling them from spreadsheets, emails, and shared drives?
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