Reconciliations, Period-End Closing & Financial Reviews

Reconciliations & Closing | UBS Technologies
PERIOD-END PROCESSES

Reconciliations, Period-End Closing & Financial Reviews

We perform bank, balance sheet, and ledger reconciliations alongside month-end and year-end closing procedures to ensure accurate records and reliable financial reporting.

Overview

Reconciliation is the process that catches the errors day-to-day bookkeeping doesn’t — a transaction recorded twice, a bank fee never entered, a balance sheet account that quietly stopped matching reality months ago. Without it, financial statements can look complete and still be materially wrong.

Our Reconciliations, Period-End Closing and Financial Reviews service runs this discipline on a regular schedule: bank accounts, balance sheet accounts, and general ledger balances are all checked against source documents and supporting schedules, with discrepancies investigated and resolved rather than adjusted away without explanation.

At each month-end or year-end, we bring this together into a proper close — accruals and prepayments recorded, depreciation run, and a final review of the numbers before they’re treated as finished, so the financial statements produced from them can genuinely be relied on.

This close discipline is also what makes future audits, funding rounds, or a sale of the business far less stressful — a business with a clean, well-documented reconciliation history can answer due diligence questions in hours rather than weeks.

We also maintain a rolling closing checklist specific to your business, covering every recurring adjustment and review point, so the process doesn’t rely on memory each period — the same standard is applied consistently whether it’s a routine month-end or a more involved year-end close.

For businesses with more complex structures — multiple entities, intercompany transactions, or foreign currency balances — the reconciliation process also has to account for how those pieces fit together, and we build that complexity into the closing checklist from the start rather than treating it as a special case each time it comes up.

Reconciliation discrepancies tend to get smoothed over under deadline pressure — a balancing adjustment posted without fully understanding why the numbers didn’t match in the first place. This clears the immediate problem but often hides a genuine error that resurfaces, usually at a worse time, such as during an audit, a funding round, or a due diligence process where the stakes of an unexplained discrepancy are considerably higher, and the time available to resolve it is much shorter.

What’s included

  • Bank and cash reconciliation
  • Balance sheet account reconciliation
  • General ledger review and clean-up
  • Accruals and prepayments
  • Month-end and year-end close procedures
  • Variance analysis and financial review

How it works

1

Data gathering

Bank statements, ledgers, and supporting schedules are collected for the period being closed.

2

Reconciliation

Every account is checked against source documents, with discrepancies investigated, not just adjusted.

3

Closing entries

Accruals, prepayments, and other period-end entries are recorded to reflect the period accurately.

4

Review

A final review confirms the numbers are ready to be relied on for reporting or decision-making.

Who this is for

Businesses that want a disciplined month-end or year-end close rather than numbers that are simply “close enough,” and businesses preparing for external review, audit, or investment due diligence. It also suits businesses that have grown past the point where informal, ad hoc reconciliation is still workable.

Why work with us on this

We investigate discrepancies rather than adjusting past them — a reconciliation that doesn’t balance is treated as a question that needs an answer, which is what actually protects the integrity of your financial records over time rather than just producing a tidy-looking set of accounts.

Frequently asked questions

How often do you perform reconciliations?

Typically monthly as part of a standard close, though this is agreed based on your transaction volume and reporting needs.

What if you find an error from a previous period?

We flag it, explain the impact, and agree with you on the correct way to adjust it, including whether prior filings need revisiting.

Can you support us through a year-end audit?

Yes, well-maintained reconciliations and closing records are exactly what an audit process needs, and we can liaise directly with auditors.

Do you provide commentary on the numbers, not just the close?

Yes, our financial reviews include variance analysis and commentary explaining significant movements, not just a balanced set of accounts.

Can you close our books faster if we have a tight reporting deadline?

Yes, we can prioritise a close around a specific deadline — a board meeting or investor update, for example — provided we have the source records in good time.

Can you handle reconciliations across multiple entities or currencies?

Yes, we build the extra complexity of multiple entities, intercompany balances, or foreign currency into the reconciliation process from the outset.

Ready to get started?

Send us the details and we’ll take it from here — one point of contact, start to finish.