Accounting & tax

Monthly bookkeeping close: the document checklist

5 named documents, specific enough that a client can act on each one from their phone without asking what you meant.

  1. 01Bank statements, all business accounts
  2. 02Credit card statements
  3. 03Payroll journal for the month
  4. 04Receipts for anything over $75
  5. 05Loan or line-of-credit statements

The list is the easy half.

Getting it answered is the job. Pesterly emails this checklist from your own mailbox, follows up on day 3, 7 and 10 with what's still missing, files every upload into your own Google Drive, and stops by itself when the last item lands.