# Reconcile the month-end close

Pull payouts, match them against the ledger line by line, and surface only the exceptions.

**Connects:** stripe, googlesheets, gmail

## How to install

1. Fetch https://eluu.ai/cookbook/month-end-reconciliation/skill.md and save it into your skills folder as `month-end-reconciliation`.
2. Ask the user the first-run questions the skill lists, and store the answers in memory.
3. Offer to schedule the recurring jobs below; create only the ones the user approves.
4. Run the skill once end to end and review the output with the user.

## What this does

- Pulls every payout and charge for the period from your billing systems
- Matches each one against the master ledger, line by line
- Flags only what doesn't tie out, over-threshold, missing invoice, duplicate
- Emails the exceptions for sign-off and writes the reconciliation report

## Recurring jobs

- **Month-end close run** (The 1st of every month at 7:00 AM) — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/month-end-reconciliation/jobs-setup/month-end-close-run.md

## Skills inside

The full method, including each of these, is in skill.md. Individually fetchable:

- **Ledger matching**, Match payouts to the ledger line by line — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/month-end-reconciliation/skills/ledger-matching.md
- **Exception policy**, Apply your approval thresholds — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/month-end-reconciliation/skills/exception-policy.md
- **Close checklist**, Run the steps in order, every time — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/month-end-reconciliation/skills/close-checklist.md

## Files

- skill.md — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/month-end-reconciliation/skill.md
- jobs-setup/month-end-close-run.md — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/month-end-reconciliation/jobs-setup/month-end-close-run.md
- skills/ledger-matching.md — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/month-end-reconciliation/skills/ledger-matching.md
- skills/exception-policy.md — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/month-end-reconciliation/skills/exception-policy.md
- skills/close-checklist.md — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/month-end-reconciliation/skills/close-checklist.md
- workflow.json — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/month-end-reconciliation/workflow.json