A head start on the work

Good books start with good structure.

Editable templates for the recurring work of bookkeeping: as CSV, so they open in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets. Download, make them yours, and get on with your day.

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Chart of accounts

A starting chart for a Canadian small company: banded by account type, with gaps left for insertion, and the sales-tax and payroll liability accounts already separated.

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Month-end close checklist

The close as a dependency chain rather than a to-do list: fifteen steps in the order that avoids doing the reconciliations twice.

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Bank reconciliation working paper

Statement balance to ledger balance with every difference named, plus an aged section for the reconciling items that have stopped being timing differences.

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Sales tax return reconciliation

Tie the tax collected and input tax credits in your ledger to what you are about to file, with the checks that catch the usual errors first.

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Payroll liability reconciliation

Each payroll liability account, its movement, and what its balance should be: the fastest place to find a missed remittance or a misposted pay run.

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Bookkeeper handover package

Everything a successor needs on day one: access, registrations, filing frequencies, judgements and contacts. The document that almost never gets written.

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