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.