
🏦 Finance & Banking · Gantt
A finance team's month-end close plan: bank reconciliations, accruals, intercompany, reviews and reporting, day by day.
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Gantt chart for a 6-working-day month-end close: day 1 sub-ledger cut-off and bank reconciliation, day 1-2 payment gateway and card settlement reconciliation, day 2-3 accruals and provisions, day 3 intercompany reconciliation, day 4 fixed assets and depreciation, day 4-5 review and adjustments, day 5-6 financial statements and management reports.
gantt title Month-End Close (Working Days) dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD axisFormat %d %b section Reconciliations Sub-ledger cut-off :a1, 2026-11-02, 1d Bank reconciliation :a2, 2026-11-02, 1d Gateway and card settlement :a3, after a1, 2d section Accounting Accruals and provisions :b1, 2026-11-03, 2d Intercompany reconciliation :b2, 2026-11-04, 1d Fixed assets and depreciation:b3, 2026-11-05, 1d section Review and reporting Review and adjustments :c1, 2026-11-05, 2d Financial statements :c2, 2026-11-06, 2d Management reports :milestone, c3, 2026-11-09, 0d
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