Download or read book Closing the Books: Fourth Edition: An Accountant's Guide written by Steven M. Bragg and published by Accounting Tools. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 270 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 the soft close, financial statement disclosures, public company reporting, and the controls and record keeping needed for the closing process.