Set up Books Close templates in Intuit Accountant Suite

With Books Close in Intuit Accountant Suite, you can track and finish the monthly close process for all your clients in one place. Standardize this process across your firm by creating and customizing templates. This article shows you how to set up a custom Books Close template.

Prerequisites

Before you can set up customized Books Close templates, be sure your firm has:

• Opted into Intuit Accountant Suite.
• Added the Books Close beta feature. 

Access permissions

Only primary and company admins have default access to Books Close settings. To grant access to other team members, an admin must edit the role-based access control settings specifically for Books Close.

Set up a customized Books Close template

1. In Intuit Accountant Suite, select Books close and then select Books close settings. You’ll see your template library. 
2. If you haven’t set up a customized template, you’ll see the standard template. To set up a customized template, select Make a copy.
3. Enter a name for your template.
4. Select Close due date and then select the recurring date you want the template to be due.
5. Go to Pre-close to review the default tasks shown and adjust the workflow to fit your firm’s close process. When you’re finished with each item, be sure to save it.
   • Select Add task and enter tasks to fit your firm’s workflow. 
   • Select Delete to delete an existing task.
   • Select Edit to change an existing task. 

6. Within the template, Account Reconciliation won’t show any information. Intuit Accountant Suite automatically adds tasks for bank and credit card accounts when you onboard a client.. You’ll also be able to add non-cash accounts.
7. Transaction Review offers transaction checks to find and fix anomalies. To customize the checks, select Add/Remove and then select or clear each transaction check. Select Save when you are done adding or removing transaction checks.
8. Go to Additional items to add or adjust any other notes or tasks you want your close process to include.
9. Once you’ve finished customizing your template, select Save to library.

Next steps

After saving your new template, you can set it as the default for your firm.

1. From the template library, select Action on your new template.
2. Select Set as default. 

You can also make a copy of this new template to customize it further.