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Your close process lives in your head. That's a business risk.

Describe your month-end close, client onboarding, or reconciliation workflow. We format it into a written SOP your team can run consistently — without calling you every time something looks off.

Works for any physical or operational process. Talk through it or type it out — we turn it into a professional PDF.

Example output

SOP · PDF · bookkeeping firm

Month-End Close Procedure — Bookkeeping Practice

  1. 1.Confirm all source documents received for the period — bank statements, credit card statements, receipts for uncategorized transactions — before beginning close.
  2. 2.Run an uncategorized transaction report. Every item categorized before reconciliation begins. Never leave 'uncategorized' as a final state.
  3. 3.Reconcile the bank account to the bank statement. The difference must be $0.00. An unreconciled difference is not 'close enough' — find it.
  4. 4.Reconcile every credit card account to its statement. Verify payments from the bank to the card are recorded as transfers, not expenses.
  5. 5.Run the P&L before delivery. Check every line for amounts that are unusually high or low vs prior months. Investigate and resolve before sending.
  6. 6.Deliver P&L, Balance Sheet, and reconciliation report with a 3-bullet summary: anomaly resolved, any client action item, reconciled bank balance.

Your SOP will be formatted like this — written in your words, specific to your business.

Operator Plan

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New hire every quarter. Seasonal staff each spring. Stop re-explaining from scratch every time someone leaves.

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  • ✓ Break even at 3 SOPs — everything after is free

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How to Create an SOP for Your Bookkeeping & Accounting Firm

Bookkeeping SOPs are how you enforce your quality standard across multiple clients and multiple staff members. The procedures that matter most: month-end close (bank and credit card reconciliation sequence, P&L review before delivery, client report format), new client onboarding (access setup, chart of accounts review, historical clean-up scope definition), and client communication protocol (delivery timeline, what triggers a question vs what gets resolved internally). A documented close procedure also protects you during staff transitions — when a bookkeeper leaves, their client files can be handed off without losing institutional knowledge.

Common Bookkeeping & Accounting Firm processes that need SOPs

  • →Month-end close procedure — transaction review through client delivery
  • →Bank and credit card reconciliation procedure
  • →New client onboarding — access, accounts, and historical review
  • →Accounts payable and receivable entry procedure
  • →Payroll processing and verification steps
  • →Year-end close and CPA handoff procedure
  • →Client communication and delivery timeline protocol
  • →New staff client file review and quality check

Why Bookkeeping & Accounting Firm operators need documented SOPs

Bookkeeping firms lose clients in two ways: errors that surface at tax time (usually from inconsistent close procedures), and delivery delays that make clients feel ignored (usually from no documented turnaround standard). Both are preventable with written procedures. For bookkeeping firms growing beyond the founder, SOPs are the mechanism that lets you add staff without adding proportional oversight time.

Pro tip

Write your month-end close procedure first. It is the highest-volume, highest-risk procedure in any bookkeeping practice, and it is almost never documented because the person who runs it can run it in their sleep. That is exactly the problem — when they can't, nobody else knows the sequence.