Month-End Close Automation

Close the books faster. Without the chaos.

Closegrove replaces your close spreadsheet stack with a single workspace: GL-synced reconciliations, scheduled accruals, task assignment with due dates, and a one-click audit package. Your team stops asking "where are we?" and starts closing.

Used by finance teams at a regional manufacturer an east-coast professional services firm a mid-size healthcare services org

Month-End Close — Day 3 of 5

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 5 Reconciliations Accruals In Progress JE Postings Flux Analysis Scheduled Pkg Review Day 5 Progress: 59% complete — on track 8/14 tasks done 0 blockers On track for Day 5

Month-end close shouldn't take 10 days

Most mid-market controllers run their close from the same patchwork they inherited: an ERP that records transactions but doesn't manage close workflow, and a folder of Excel templates held together by tribal knowledge.

No shared close calendar or PBC list

Tasks live in email threads and a shared spreadsheet nobody fully trusts. Nobody knows who owns the prepaid amortization rec until close day three.

Reconciliation templates that break each period

You paste the GL balance in, a formula shifts, and two hours disappear into re-verification. The same three accounts create problems every single month.

Accruals discovered wrong on close day 7

A recurring accrual is booked at the wrong amount. Nobody catches the variance until flux analysis — then the JE correction moves everything back a day.

Closegrove dashboard showing a month-end close checklist with task assignments, due dates, and completion status by category
Core Platform

One place for the whole close

Not a checklist app. Not a project management tool repurposed for accounting. Closegrove is purpose-built for the close workflow — from pre-close task setup through final binder package sign-off.

Close checklist with preparer/reviewer task assignment and dependency chains

Reconciliation templates with live GL balance sync — no copy-paste from ERP

Accrual scheduler with configurable materiality thresholds and variance alerts

One-click close package export: signed-off checklist, recs, and JE support

Setup

Up and running in a week

No professional services engagement. No IT ticket. Most controllers have Closegrove mapped to their chart of accounts and their first close underway within three business days.

1

Connect your ERP

NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, Sage Intacct — OAuth 2.0 GL sync. Account mapping takes 15–30 minutes for most chart-of-accounts structures.

2

Build your close checklist

Start from our controller-vetted template covering reconciliations, accruals, JE postings, and flux review — or import your existing process.

3

Run your close, not your email

Every task owner sees their queue. The controller sees everything. Blockers surface in real time, not at the 4pm status meeting on day eight.

What teams say

Finance teams that close better

Before Closegrove, close day three was always chaos — someone was always waiting on someone else's reconciliation and we had no visibility without a Slack thread. We went from a 9-day close to 5 days in our second month. The accrual scheduler alone cut four hours off our Wednesday routine. For the first time, our auditors received a timestamped, signed-off close package instead of a folder of Excel files.

Corporate Controller — Regional manufacturing company, ~200 employees

I'd used FloQast at a previous company. Closegrove is simpler to configure and the accrual scheduler handles something I haven't seen done well elsewhere. Our recurring accruals used to be a monthly guessing exercise — we'd discover a variance on flux day and have to post a correcting entry. Now the schedule runs automatically and flags anything outside tolerance before we close.

VP Finance — East-coast professional services firm, ~120 employees

Integrations

Connects to your ERP. No middleware, no IT ticket.

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Ready to reclaim your close week?

14-day free trial. No credit card. No sales call. Connect your ERP and run your next month-end close in Closegrove — most controllers are live in three days.