

Change the Date field, if necessary, in the Make General Journal Entries window. QuickBooks will default to the current date so if you want to post an entry for a previous month or year, be sure to change it so that your entry gets recorded in the proper financial time period.Go to Company > Make General Journal Entries from the menu at the top of the screen.Accounting What is the Month-End Close Process?Ĭomplete and timely financial statements are the most powerful strategic tool for any organization.

They help business owners measure progress towards goals, and they’re essential for performing an accurate cash flow projection for the future and making business decisions. To use your financial information as an effective planning and strategic tool, you need to get into a regular cadence of closing your books. In this post, we’ll first give an overview of the closing process and provide you with a month-end close checklist. Next, we’ll go into the specific steps for closing the books in QuickBooks, NetSuite, and Sage Intacct. The month-end close process is a set of steps that closes your books at the end of the month to set your numbers in stone.


It’s impossible to accurately track performance if those numbers bounce around when someone finds invoices or bills that weren’t recorded on a timely basis, or when someone changes transactions from previous months (or even previous years). Including a monthly closing process in your regular accounting procedures ensures that your numbers are reliable, stable, and accurate.
