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- Financial Close Management
- Features
- Task management
Task management
Task management gives accountants a daily work list and gives the close manager a clear view of blockers. Closing tasks link each assignment to the period, its template and supporting accounting evidence. Task comments preserve questions and handoff notes alongside the work. The person preparing a task submits it for independent review before it is completed. That separation keeps a checked box connected to the evidence and decision behind it.
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My Closing Tasks
Closing tasks
| Task code | Close period | Name | Category | Due date | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLOSE-CASH-09 | Northstar Group, FY 2025 | Reconcile operating cash | Cash | 04 Nov | Not started | |
| CLOSE-AP-12 | Northstar Property, Q3 2026 | Review accrued expenses | AR | 17 Oct | In progress | |
| CLOSE-REV-04 | Northstar Treasury, September 2026 | Post payroll allocation | AP | 12 Oct | Submitted | |
| CLOSE-FA-07 | Northstar Holdings, September 2026 | Confirm intercompany balances | Inventory | 22 Oct | Blocked | |
| CLOSE-IC-03 | Northstar Treasury, September 2026 | Approve revenue cutoff | Fixed assets | 12 Oct | Not started |
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CLOSE-CASH-09Closing tasks · CT-12049
CashClose periodNorthstar Group, FY 2025
NameReconcile operating cash
Due date04 Nov
StatusNot started
Related reconIntercompany payable, September 2026
What you can do
Work from an assigned checklist
My Closing Tasks focuses on the authenticated owner’s unfinished work. The task includes its category, due date, status, related reconciliation or journal review and any blocking reason. Accountant starts the assignment, prepares supporting work and submits the current revision. Another person’s task is not writable merely because its URL is known. An inactive assignee remains visible in history while Close Manager arranges a replacement for outstanding work.
Review the evidence before completion
The assigned reviewer inspects the submitted evidence and records the decision against the task revision. Owner and reviewer must be distinct authenticated people. Evidence can link to an approved reconciliation, a reviewed journal or an immutable supporting file. A dependency remains a real condition: downstream completion cannot bypass unfinished predecessor work. When the underlying evidence changes after review, retain the earlier decision and request the affected review again.
Resolve blockers and authorized exceptions
Late Tasks and Open Issues Log help Close Manager distinguish an overdue assignment from work that cannot proceed. A blocked task retains its reason and owner. Skipping required work needs a documented policy basis, a distinct Close Manager decision and Controller / CFO authorization; changing the status alone is insufficient. A permitted exception remains visible in the close evidence. Due-date changes and reassignments preserve their own audit trail without erasing the original handoff.
What your team sees
- My Closing Tasks. Work from an assigned checklist.
- Late Tasks. Resolve blockers and authorized exceptions.
Rollout checks
Walk a task from assignment through submission and independent review, then change its evidence and verify that the affected decision cannot be reused. Test both dependency types and an attempted self-review. Exercise a required skip with and without the Controller authorization. Confirm that reminders identify the responsible person and do not mark work complete when an email is delivered.
Before rollout, agree the entity and period population, source-system ownership and the people assigned to each decision. Preserve existing accounting identifiers during migration and reconcile imported totals to the owning system. A preview on this website does not provision a live connector or grant a user financial authority. In Proto, configure the corresponding records and actions, test permitted and rejected operations through the API as well as the interface, and retain the implementation evidence before releasing the application.
Record the accepted pilot evidence with the exact configuration revision so subsequent changes can be compared to the behavior Finance reviewed.
What it keeps track of
Data model- Closing tasks
- Instance tasks per close period. One row per active template per period, with resolved Owner / Reviewer / due date. The day-to-day checklist surface for the Accountant and Senior Accountant.
- Task comments
- Threaded discussion on a single closing task. Used for handoff notes, blockers, and reviewer feedback.
- Issues log
- Open close-related issues — the catch-all log for anomalies that did not yet become a formal Deficiency or rejected recon but need visibility. The Close Manager works this list daily.
Who uses it
Permissions- Accountant
- Prepares own tasks.
- Senior Accountant
- Independently reviews assigned work.
- Close Manager
- Manages blockers, due dates and assignment changes.
- Controller / CFO
- Authorizes required task exceptions.
- Internal Auditor
- Reads the retained decisions.
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