Check a month before you close it

Open Finances, then the Accounts tab. Below your bank accounts you find the Month-end check.
Pick the month in the Month field. The check opens on the newest month your bank statements cover.
The result is shown at the top right of the box: either Ready for the hand-over or the number of open points. If the month has no bank statement yet, the box says so; import the statement first.
Five lists follow, each with a number: Unassigned bank lines, Category bookings without receipt, Statement balance differences, Gaps between statements and Open issues.
Work through the lists until every number is 0. An open issue is a link to the booking you need to correct.
When every list is empty, the month is ready and can be closed. How to do that is on the page about closing and re-opening a month.
Below the lists the box shows Compliance warnings for the whole books, as of today and not for the chosen month: No warnings, or a count with the findings. They cover a customer account in credit, a liability in debit, input or output VAT on the wrong side, open items older than 30 days, a difference between the accounts and the open items, bookings dated after today, and a plant, equipment or vehicle balance carried in from an earlier year on which no depreciation was ever booked. The checks exist for the SKR03 chart only: for another chart the box shows that the warnings could not be loaded, not No warnings.
The warnings are separate from the five lists: a month can be Ready for the hand-over and still show warnings. Read them and ask the tax advisor; the account rules behind them are not yet confirmed by a tax advisor, as the notice says.
If payroll is switched on for the client and your role may read payroll, a Payroll list follows the open issues for the chosen month: a payroll liability account in debit, a wage expense account in credit for the year, the wage tax return (Lohnsteuer-Anmeldung) due within 7 days or past due, a Minijob gross over the monthly limit, and a note to record the working time of Minijob employees (§ 17 MiLoG). With a quarterly or yearly filing period the Lohnsteuer-Anmeldung shows only in the last month of the quarter or year. The app does not record a filed Lohnsteuer-Anmeldung yet, so a past due date stays listed as a warning. These findings never stop the month from being Ready for the hand-over.
The Month-end check also lists Documents without a booking: receipts uploaded more than 10 days ago that no booking uses yet. The number of days is a setting per client. To change it, open Settings, then Periods, and enter 1 to 31 days under Booking settings. A value above 10 shows a warning label, because the warning then comes later. The warning never blocks a booking or closing the month. The same box has two thresholds for the compliance warnings: after how many days an open item is reported (1 to 365, default 30) and an amount ceiling per booking (empty means none). Raising a threshold never switches a check off; each change is recorded in the audit trail.
Whether the figures of a client come from the stored journal is set in Settings, Periods, in the Journal box: Off, Shadow or Journal. Only owners and administrators can change it. If the box says the server currently allows only a lower mode, the client runs at that lower mode.