Month-End Books is one workbook your accountant can work straight from, built from everything you already logged. There is nothing to re-type; Books is aggregation and formatting, not a second place to capture data.

1. Review your income statement

Open Books → Month-End Books. Check the income statement, month and year to date, so revenue, costs, and operating income read right before anything goes out. The figures match your Books overview because they are built from the same data.

2. Know what is in the file

The workbook holds an income statement, inventory valuation, a cash reconciliation trail, a void and comp log, a tip allocation worksheet for IRS Form 8027, variance and shrinkage, and labor cost analysis, plus your audit opportunities turned into dollars. A December close also adds a year-end tax helper. A one-page owner summary PDF comes alongside it.

3. Generate and hand it off

Generate the workbook and the owner summary, acknowledge the review notice, and send it to your accountant. Run it once the month's numbers are current.

The count-based COGS and the income statement can differ, and both are honest: the income statement sums your weekly numbers, the inventory valuation does the Schedule C math. The file includes them side by side, so give your accountant both.