Monthly Accounting Tasks:
8. Balance your business checkbook
Just as you reconcile your personal checking account, you need to know that your cash business transaction entries are accurate each month and that you are working with the correct cash position. Reconciling your cash makes it easier to discover and correct any errors or omissions -- either by you or by the bank -- in time to correct them.
9. Review past due (“aged”) receivables
Be sure to include an “aging” column to separate “open invoices” with the number of days a bill is past due. This gives you a quick view of outstanding customer payments. The beginning of the month is a good time to send out overdue reminder statements to customers, clients, and anyone else who owes you money. At the end of your fiscal year, you will be looking at this account again to determine what receivables you will need to send to collection or write off for a deduction.