Closing Time!
Like so many other folks born in the 80s, I hear the phrase “Closing Time” and the song by the band Semisonic floods my mind, except that in the accounting world, “one more call for alcohol” turns into “one more call for journal entries”. Ugh. The month-end close process can be relentless and seem like it always ends just in time to start the next month’s close. The elusive “Continuous Close” seems farther and farther away as companies are...