Sage close calendars controllers actually trust
How to structure month-end so intercompany, accruals, and inventory tie-outs land in the right order—without surprise journal storms.
By Morgan Ellis
Close is a factory line. Dependencies should be explicit: inventory cutoff before COGS journals, AR aging before bad debt review, intercompany before consolidation.
A close calendar skeleton
T-5
Freeze non-critical master data changes; publish expected cutoffs to ops.
T-2
Subledgers reconciled to control accounts with documented variances.
Next step
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