A month ends when the bank agrees
Amarillo is Spanish for yellow, and the town was called Oneida before that. A name people can say out loud is a fair standard for a month. The close should be that plain. You can point at a date, open the bank, and see the same days the file sees.
The feed will try to help. It will label a transfer as a sale if a rule once saw a similar amount. We do not let that label stand without a look. The odd lines come out onto a short list, and each one gets a home or stays unmatched with a reason you can read.
Uncleared checks are the part owners forget until a lender asks. Outstanding checks remain on the reconciliation. They leave only when the bank clears them or when you tell us to take them off. A check is not income. Folding it into the month to make the difference disappear is how a file starts to lie.
What you get at the end is a closed month you can read without us in the room. Profit for the period. The bank difference, if any, with the items still open. The draws and the loan payments in their own places. If something is missing, the note says what it is and which month it blocks.
When wages are part of the month, the provider setup happens in the same pass as the close. We map the wage accounts, the tax deposits, and the provider you already run or the one you are about to choose. Once the wage lines exist in the file, the provider you run is the one that pays the crew. The close only has to recognize what was paid.
If a penalty letter is sitting on the counter, bring it. We will not promise that the penalty disappears. We will put the months the letter is about into order, so the next conversation is about a closed file instead of a guess. A missing item stays named.
