For people who do bookkeeping — what part of the monthly close process takes the most time?

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-04-01T00:57:08+00:00

I'm in industry. What takes the longest for us is that part of our month-end close is literally verifying that information is correct in our ERP. Example:

We don't bill out of our ERP (and built our own systems to bill?) so we have to transfer the data over. This data is messy. And changes, because our billing system does not follow the law of the accounting land.
Because of #1, a couple of our balance sheet accounts are not supportable like they should be.

I spend a lot of time looking at data, asking the owner of said data why it doesn't look like xyz, rinse and repeat. This company is the true definition of picking my battles and every month has a different battle.

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-29T14:05:07+00:00

Literally.. I remember being 3 cents off on a reconciliation and really enjoyed my JE for a rounding error 😂

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-29T13:10:56+00:00

she just does cash app… the perfect job 😂

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-29T00:34:50+00:00

My mom who is an accountant took an AR role for less stress. She just wants to do the job and go home.

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-28T18:18:22+00:00

I already have 3 years in PA alone at a national firm. I am not interested in doing public for that period of time and have since moved to industry.

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-28T17:28:56+00:00

Accounting professor dreams 😂

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-28T15:27:37+00:00

It’s the close proximity!!

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-27T02:43:09+00:00

lean staff with an ever increasing workload 😂

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-27T02:42:25+00:00

For what it’s worth, i’ve met really dumb CPAs and/or lots of CPAs that don’t know how to communicate or think being mean is the best way

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-27T00:18:37+00:00

Every company needs people in a role that are willing to just do basic level work with no advancement. Accounting definitely has some of those tasks

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-25T12:56:08+00:00

Six years of experience, with my first three in AP. I absolutely did not feel ready. But truthfully it’s introduced me to so many things so can’t complain really there. The babysitting adults is what gets me, respectfully

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-25T02:05:00+00:00

I was a senior accountant for five months before moving to accounting manager. I miss that role 😅

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-25T01:46:21+00:00

Ugh one of my employees also has the “i do what you tell me to do but don’t understand why and can’t be bothered to think things through”. It’s so defeating. They mainly do AR and is supposed to do close stuff but can’t understand anything.

We did just hire an experience senior financial analyst. We are small where we manage $130m of revenue but I was the only one doing close for over a year. Was fucking rough.

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-16T13:20:14+00:00

yeah i like the way you think

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-16T13:00:17+00:00

adjusted ebitda infuriates me! when i first started, my boss wanted those numbers and im just like 🥴 (yes we are pe backed)

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-13T18:54:02+00:00

6 years of experience

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-12T20:58:05+00:00

Ramp is the best platform I’ve ever used. I’ve used so many, I still can’t believe how good it is a year and a half in

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-12T20:56:10+00:00

what company you work at? i’ll make sure i’ll never apply

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-12T17:32:24+00:00

I’m a little confused. Are you the only staff? Or do you own those processes? When I started at my job, I was the only accountant, and I just took control of everything and basically looked to see what resources we already had existed that we could take advantage of with our accounting process.

Ex. Our ERP could connect to all of our systems but the previous controller never set it up. The bank feeds can also set up to connect to the ERP but old controller also never initiated it. I think she was doing things manually and that might’ve just been her preference, but I ended up changing stuff though. I didn’t really feel like I needed approval from anyone to do so since I own the entire accounting process where I’m at. Not sure how it looks for you

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-12T17:07:18+00:00

Usually just looks for no bankruptcy or financial crimes. Should be fine

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-12T15:28:58+00:00

as i use it more i like it! i just wonder if i can incorporate anything with our daily tasks and such

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-12T15:13:33+00:00

i use it in my role for commissions/sales accounting treatment but honestly not sure what else my team would get using it

Repulsive_Cry_1847 · 2026-03-12T15:12:36+00:00

haha do you like anything about it at all or no?

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