The Quiet Loop
01 · Messy data · accounting jobFrom $150 a job

Month-end data preparation

Every month-end starts with the same chase: statements, invoices and exports in different places and formats.

We get the data ready. You close the month.

Send us last month’s files

The files, or a sample. We reply in writing within one working day.

What you send, and what comes back

How we work
You send
The month’s statements, invoices and exports, however they arrive.
We return
One folder for the month: statements converted, invoices extracted, bank lines prepared for matching, and a check sheet for each.
How you check it
Each part has its own check sheet, and every total ties to a figure in the source.
Free sample
One account for one month, prepared.
Price
From $150 a job. Every month: the monthly term, on the pricing page.

What it looks like

Invented names and figures.
Month-end packExample

Fennick Tile Co. · August 2025

Month-end pack, an invented example
ItemStatusCheck
Bank statements, 3 accountsConvertedBalances tie
Card statementConvertedBalances tie
Supplier invoices, 46Extracted2 listed: totals differ
Bank lines for matchingPrepared12 unmatched, listed

More on this job

Month-end takes about the same hours whether the month was clean or not, because nothing that needs a decision can be seen until the routine preparation is done: statements converted, invoices keyed, bank lines lined up for matching. We do that part, so your time starts on the items that need you.

One folder for the month

You send the month’s files however they arrive. We return one folder: each bank and card statement converted with its balances tied, supplier invoices extracted with each one checked against its own total, and bank lines prepared for matching with the unmatched ones listed. Each part has its own check sheet, so you can check any of them without redoing it.

Transfers kept apart from spending

A payment that settles a credit card looks, on the bank statement, like a payment to a supplier. Recorded alongside the card’s own transactions, it counts the same spending twice while the books still balance. We pair transfers between accounts and mark them, so they are visible before anything is coded. See transfers recorded as costs.

Starting with one client

The usual start is one client for one month, run alongside your existing process. Comparing the two is slower, and it is the only honest way to know our output agrees with yours before anything depends on it. After that, a steady monthly volume fits the monthly term on the pricing page.

What stays with you

Coding, accruals, adjustments, review and sign-off. If you also want the bank matching laid out line by line, that is reconciliation preparation, which can run as part of the month or on its own.

Questions about this job

Does this replace our close checklist?

No, it feeds it. Your checklist and your review stay as they are. The preparation items arrive done, each with its own check sheet.

We run month-end differently for each client. Is that a problem?

No. The formats, the accounts and the checks are set per client in the written scope, so each client’s month comes back in the shape its own process expects.

What does it cost every month?

A single month is priced as a job, from $150. For steady monthly volume, the monthly term buys a fixed number of hours each month; the figures are on the pricing page.

How do we start?

Send last month’s files for one client. The free sample is one account for one month, prepared and returned with its check sheet, before you pay anything.

What we do not do

  • Bookkeeping, tax or any judgement on the figures
  • An opinion on what the figures mean

The full list of limits

Send us last month’s files

Send us last month’s filesThe files, or a sample. We reply in writing within one working day.