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Month-end close · September 8, 2026

A period you can still edit is not closed

Locking a period is what makes a reported number mean something. Everything found afterwards is a correction posted forward — visible, dated, and leaving the original in place.

Month-end close · September 3, 2026

Accruals and prepayments, and the reversal that stops the double count

Adjusting entries are where a cash-shaped ledger becomes an accrual one. They are also where the same cost gets counted twice, because the adjustment was never reversed.

Payroll · August 13, 2026

The gross-to-net model, and why payroll is three transactions

Payroll looks like one payment. In the books it is an expense, a set of liabilities you are holding for someone else, and later a remittance. Conflating them is why payroll accounts drift.

Bookkeeping · June 16, 2026

Why your books should be an immutable ledger

A real ledger never lets a posted entry be silently edited or deleted — corrections happen by reversing. Here's why that matters, and how comma enforces it.

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