Accounting › Financial Close
Close Checklist
One task in the template. The phase is what the wizard turns into a step, and an automated task names the run it performs.
Where to find it
- Module: Accounting
- Group: Close & Compliance
- Section: Financial Close
- Screen: Close Checklist
Address in the console: /accounting/close-template-tasks
List · 10 columns · 19 fields on its form · 5 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Template | Code | template_code |
| Seq | Number | seq_no |
| Code | Code | code |
| Task | Text | name |
| Phase | Status | phase |
| Type | Status | task_type |
| Runs | Code | action_key |
| Owner role | Code | owner_role |
| Day | Number | due_day |
| Blocking | Yes or no | is_blocking |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Template required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Sequence required | Number | ||
| Code required | Text | ||
| Name required | Text | ||
| Phase required | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Module | Text | ||
| Type | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Action key | Text | ASSET-DEPR, LEASE-RUN, REV-RECOGNISE, ALLOC-CYCLE, ORDER-SETTLE, RECURRING-POST, FX-REVALUE, PERIOD-CLOSE. | |
| Action parameters | Text | ||
| Owner role | Text | ||
| Reviewer role | Text | ||
| Due working day | Number | Day 0 is the last day of the period; day 3 is three working days after it. | |
| Estimated minutes | Number | ||
| Mandatory | Yes or no | ||
| Blocks the phase | Yes or no | Marking everything blocking is how a close checklist stops being used. | |
| Requires evidence | Yes or no | ||
| Requires approval | Yes or no | ||
| Instructions | Long text | ||
| Active | Yes or no |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.