Download or read book Closing the Books written by Steven M. Bragg and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closing the Books gives you a complete understanding of how information is summarized into the financial statements, as well as the closing steps needed to create financial statements. It shows how to fine-tune the closing process to achieve a shorter close, and describes the variety of financial statement formats that are available. It even addresses financial statement disclosures, the soft close, public company reporting, and the controls and record keeping needed for the closing process.