Month-End and Year-End Close Services
Accurate, reviewed financials every month and a clean year-end, for venture-backed startups and growing companies.
Resolve Works handles your month-end close so your books are right, not just reconciled. Each month we reconcile, adjust, and review your financials, then carry that work into a clean year-end close your tax preparer, board, and investors can rely on.
Why a good month-end close matters
Most accounting software can match bank transactions and mark the books reconciled. That’s the easy part.
The hard part is catching what’s wrong. Revenue recorded in the wrong month. An annual software contract expensed all at once. A payroll accrual that never got booked. AI bookkeeping tools are getting better at the mechanics, but they don’t catch these mistakes, and they add up fast.
Reconciled isn’t right. That’s the gap between books that balance and books you can actually make decisions on.
A real monthly close closes that gap. When you pull a P&L for a board meeting, a fundraise, or a hiring decision, the numbers hold up.
What’s included in our month-end close
No two businesses close the same way. We build a close checklist and calendar around your business, your reporting needs, and your timelines. You’ll know the day your financials land each month, and we hold to it.
- Every transaction coded correctly. Not just accepted from the bank feed’s suggestions.
- Bank accounts reconciled to the actual statements, with no forced differences.
- Credit cards reconciled, with personal charges and duplicate entries pulled out.
- Receivables and payables reviewed for old invoices, misapplied payments, and missing bills.
- Adjusting entries posted: prepaids, deferred revenue, accruals, depreciation, and payroll, so income and expenses land in the right month.
- Full balance sheet reconciliation, with a workpaper behind every account.
- Trend review to catch anything that spiked, dropped, or stopped moving.
- Budget vs. actual comparison to find what never got recorded.
- A monthly financial package: P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, budget vs. actual, cash runway, and a short summary of what needs a decision.
- The period locked so the numbers you received don’t change after the fact.
Want to see the full process? Download our free 10-step month-end close checklist.
We work in QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, and Sage Intacct.
Year-end close and tax-ready financials
1. Start with a conversation. We learn how your business runs, what systems you use, and who relies on your numbers: your team, your board, your investors, or your lender.
2. Get the books current. If your books are behind or messy, we catch up and clean up first. There’s no point closing on top of problems.
3. Build your close. We set up a close checklist, calendar, and reporting package that fit your business and your deadlines.
4. Close every month. Your financials arrive on schedule, and we walk you through what changed and what needs a decision. By December, year-end is a final check, not a scramble.
How our outsourced close works
1. Start with a conversation. We learn how your business runs, what systems you use, and who relies on your numbers: your team, your board, your investors, or your lender.
2. Get the books current. If your books are behind or messy, we catch up and clean up first. There’s no point closing on top of problems.
3. Build your close. We set up a close checklist, calendar, and reporting package that fit your business and your deadlines.
4. Close every month. Your financials arrive on schedule, and we walk you through what changed and what needs a decision. By December, year-end is a final check, not a scramble.
Who we work with
We work with companies that need their numbers to hold up in front of other people.
Venture-backed startups, pre-seed through Series A
Investors expect board-ready financials every month. We give you a close that holds up to board meetings, your next raise, and due diligence.
VC funds and portfolio companies
Consistent, reliable reporting across portfolio companies, so funds aren’t chasing numbers each quarter.
Growing privately owned businesses
No board or investors doesn’t mean no one is looking at your numbers. Your bank wants financial statements and covenant reporting on time, your partners want to know how the business is doing, and you need reliable numbers before you hire, borrow, or expand. We give you a close that keeps lenders confident and your financials ready whenever someone asks.
EOS®-run companies
We fill the finance seat on your Accountability Chart™ and support your team with numbers you can trust in your Scorecard™, Level 10 Meeting™, and quarterly Rocks™ planning. Our founder is a former Integrator™ and Professional EOS Implementer™, so we already speak your language.
A team, not a single hire
When one bookkeeper or controller does everything, your close depends on that one person. If they leave, get sick, or fall behind, so do your books.
We work as a team. You get full coverage, from day-to-day bookkeeping to controllership to CFO-level support, for less than the loaded cost of one senior hire and without the key-person risk.
We retained Resolve Works for our venture-sponsored startup. Resolve Works has done an outstanding job supporting our financial reporting needs, including detailed budgeting, balance sheet, and P&L. Always accessible and delivering for our rapidly expanding company. I give an unqualified recommendation on their services. J. Adler, Healthcare Startup
