Financial Close template
A month-end close checklist on business days: reconciliations feed the consolidation, the consolidation feeds reporting, and sign-off waits on all of it.
Financial controllers and accounting teams running a recurring close.
- 5 views
- 8 fields
- 5 groups
- 14 sample tasks
- 1 milestone
- 16 dependencies
- 6 dashboard widgets
- 5 workflow statuses
- 1 automation
Close calendar · Gantt view · opens first
What's included
Every close task sits on a day of the close calendar (day minus 2 to day plus 6) and depends on the tasks it cannot start before: sub-ledger closes feed the reconciliations, reconciliations feed the consolidation, the consolidation feeds the management pack, and the sign-off milestone waits on everything. Each task has a preparer and a reviewer, an entity and a workflow from Not started through Prepared and Reviewed to Signed off. Run it every month by duplicating the project with a new start date.
Views
- Close calendar (Gantt)
- Checklist (Table)
- By status (Board)
- Calendar
- Dashboard
Task fields
- Status
- Timeline
- Owner
- Dependencies
- Close daycustom
- Entitycustom
- Reviewercustom
- Workpapercustom
Groups
- Pre-close
- Sub-ledgers
- Reconciliations
- Consolidation
- Reporting
Dashboard
- KPIs
- Tasks by status
- Group progress
- Overdue tasks
- Upcoming milestones
- Assigned to me
Automation
- Notify when a task becomes overdue
5 statuses that match the work
Statuses are the board's columns and the filters everywhere else. The one marked complete counts a task as done; edit the list any time.
- Not started
- In progress
- Prepared
- Reviewed
- Signed off
16 links, so a slip shows up where it lands
The longest chain in the template. Every link is real: the Gantt draws it, the Impact view scores it, and the simulator moves everything downstream when you delay a task.
- Cut-off review and accruals listPre-close · feeds 2 tasks
- Accounts payable closeSub-ledgers · feeds 2 tasks
- Bank reconciliationsReconciliations
- Consolidation and FX translationConsolidation
- Flux analysis and variance commentaryReporting
- Management packReporting
- Close signed offReporting
- Close retrospective and control logReporting
1 more linked step between these. Delay Cut-off review and accruals list and Depentra shows the 11 downstream tasks it reaches, the milestones that move, and by how many days, before anyone accepts the slip.
Dashboard: 6 widgets chosen for this work
Not the same dashboard for every template. This one opens with:
Often used alongside Financial Close
Use the Financial Close template
Create your account and this template is already selected on the Create project page. Pick a start date, name the project, and the 5 views are ready. Available on Standard and above.