GENERATE IMPROVEMENT IN EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR FISCAL CLOSE PROCESS

As finance professionals know, the fiscal close has countless moving parts. It involves everything from daily financial operations in which employees generate and record data to the annual reporting, budgeting, and planning tasks that are critical to an organization's financial health. The Fast Close Toolkit is an extensive set of practical guidelines for improving the fiscal close.

With over 50 best practices, checklists, policies, and other tools, this book provides valuable steps that you can immediately implement to bring efficiency to the fiscal close without sacrificing the accuracy, reliability, and transparency that regulatory bodies require. In addition, you will enjoy thorough yet concise explanations of every aspect of the fiscal close, including governance, standards of internal control, reconciliation, and beyond. This detail will enable you to identify where your own close process can be improved, and how to get there. The Fast Close is not just about speed?it's about designing and implementing an elegant fiscal close strategy that can serve as the strategic engine for the entire organization.