Month End Course Outline

Lesson #1 - Getting Started

  • Introduction to month end
  • Financial statement assertions
  • Phases of month end
  • Sample month end

Lesson #2 - Creating Your Process

  • Used phased approach
  • Creating a month end checklist
  • Consider risk areas
  • Schedule month end work
  • Managing month end in a solo practice
  • Managing month end for a team
  • Utilizing a project management system

Lesson #3 - Recociliations

  • Seeing reconciliation history
  • Using Hubdoc
  • Reconciliation screen options
  • Fixing reconciliations
  • Clearing accounts
  • Cleanup reconciliations
  • Loan reconciliations

Lesson #4 - Workpapers

  • What are workpapers?
  • Formatting workpapers
  • Journal entries versus updating transactions
  • Workpaper examples

Lesson #5 - Balance Sheet

  • More workpaper examples
  • Tying a balance sheet to a tax return
  • Reviewing the balance sheet

Lesson #6 - Profit & Loss

  • Analytical procedures
  • Reviewing the P&L
  • Reclassify transactions
  • QBO's management reporting
  • Manual reporting using Excel
  • Other reporting options

**Bonus Course** Excel Skills for Accountants - Top 10 Excel Tools to Increase Productivity

  • Layout tips
  • Formulas
  • Time-savers
  • PivotTables

**Bonus Course**  Building Budgets for Your Clients

  • Planning with clients
  • Gathering information
  • Determining budget numbers
  • Final review