u/Comfortable_Stick272

Trying to get better at my month end review and honestly curious how everyone else does it. Like what stuff do you actually catch in your own work when you do that last look before closing? The things that already got categorized but turn out wrong once you actually pay attention.

For me its usually transfers showing up as income, and every so often a duplicate sneaks in from the bank feed and throws off the recon. But I always feel like im catching stuff late and probably missing things other people would flag right away.

So what are the usual ones for you, and if you can share an actual example that would be great, like what it looked like and how it even ended up in there. Also do you just scan everything manually or do you have some report or trick you rely on to find this stuff.

Doesnt matter if youre QBO or Xero, solo or in a firm, just trying to learn what everyone watches for.

Trying to get better at my month end review and honestly curious how everyone else does it. Like what stuff do you actually catch in your own work when you do that last look before closing? The things that already got categorized but turn out wrong once you actually pay attention.

For me its usually transfers showing up as income, and every so often a duplicate sneaks in from the bank feed and throws off the recon. But I always feel like im catching stuff late and probably missing things other people would flag right away.

So what are the usual ones for you, and if you can share an actual example that would be great, like what it looked like and how it even ended up in there. Also do you just scan everything manually or do you have some report or trick you rely on to find this stuff.

Doesnt matter if youre QBO or Xero, solo or in a firm, just trying to learn what everyone watches for.

I work with bookkeepers who manage a mix of Xero and QuickBooks clients, and a recurring complaint is that the month-end review process is totally different between the two platforms different tools, different ways errors show up, no single place to check everything.

If you run both
Do you have a unified checklist/process, or do you basically context-switch per platform?Which platform's books need more cleanup before close, in your experience?Would a single view across both even be useful, or do you not mind switching?

Just trying to understand how people who live in both worlds actually handle it.

Been hearing a lot of frustration about QBO's auto-categorization getting more aggressive applying rules that quietly mess up the books, transfers showing up as income, the "turn it off" toggle flipping itself back on, etc.

For those of you who manage client books
How often do you actually have to undo what the auto-categorization did?
Do you have a system for catching these before close, or is it mostly manual scanning?
Has anyone tried the newer anomaly detection stuff Intuit added?
Does it actually catch the important stuff?

Trying to get a sense of whether this is a minor annoyance or a genuinely costs me hours every month problem