Close the month with a checklist, not a prayer

The checks before the lock

Balances agree with the statement, every line is explained, no expected recurring charge is missing, nothing was imported twice, the statement chain is intact, and outstanding items are accounted for. Each check reports what it found, so you fix the real thing instead of hunting for it.

• Unmatched lines and unexplained differences
• Expected but missing recurring charges
• Duplicate imports and statement gaps
• Outstanding cheques and deposits in transit, with aging

A signed reconciliation statement

Closing produces a PDF: balances, the checks that passed, outstanding items, who closed the month and when. A finalized month rejects accidental edits with a clear message, and can be reopened deliberately when something genuinely must change.

Your receipts draft your GST/HST return

The tax remittance view reads issued invoices, entered bills and scanned receipts, and drafts the GST34 figures for any date range: sales, tax collected, input tax credits and the net line, ready to copy onto the CRA form. Components are broken out by jurisdiction, receipt credits are counted once, and foreign-currency documents convert to CAD at the dated rate.

• GST, HST, PST and RST by jurisdiction
• Monthly, quarterly or annual filing periods
• Double-count guard on receipt credits

Statement continuity

Each statement's closing balance should be the next one's opening. AviBooks chains statements per account and warns when a month is missing or a balance does not carry forward, across uploads, emailed statements and downloads. The classic way books quietly go wrong, caught before the close.