Fiscal Year End Checklist

  1. Check Data Integrity.
  2. Back up your company files:
  3. Reconcile Accounts - Do this at month-end, or when you receive your bank or credit card statement.
  4. Print Year-End Reports - Print reports as of the last day of the year. (Print the ones that apply to your company business needs)
  • Income Statement - Month-to-date
  • Income Statement - Year-to-date
  • Balance Sheet
  • Transactions By Account (past month)
  • All Transactions (past month)
  • Chart of Accounts
  • Purchase Transaction Details
  • Payment Transaction Details
  • Vendor Aged (Summary and Detail)
  • Sales Transaction report
  • Receipt Transaction Details
  • Customer Aged (Summary and Detail)
  • Payroll Transaction Details (Past month)
  • Inventory (Quantity and Summary)
  • Item Assembly Transactions (Past month)
  • Adjustment Transactions (Past month)
  • Project Report

Print budget reports - Print the comparative Income Statement showing actual and budgeted amounts.

Prepare this year's budget - Update this year's budget using last year's comparative Income Statement.

Make Year End adjustments

  • Ensure that the 'Do not allow transactions dated before' option is set.
  • Process your adjustments with a date in the previous fiscal year.
  • Uncheck the 'Do not allow transactions dated before' option after you finish making adjustments.

When ready, go to Maintenance, Start New Year, Fiscal Year.

  • Carlo: This is a great checklist for year end processing, however, it should be tailored directly to the specific company needs. Some of the reports being suggested are duplicating the same transactions as in other reports thus killing an unreasonable number of trees. If possible reports should be PDF and maintained on a drive.

    Also, when making the year end entries the "Do not allow transactions before..." should be off or the date sufficiently in the past so that the entries can be made. Once entries are made then the date can be brought forward to the end of the fiscal year and the option checked again.