What is a month-end close?
The routine that makes one month's books final: every bank and card account matched to its statement, every sale and bill recorded, and the month's numbers reviewed before the next month starts.
Monthly bookkeeping and month-end close for Utah businesses
Excite Tax offers a monthly close for Utah businesses because Utah's TC-62S and TC-62M sales-tax returns are due the last day of the month after each period.
Short answers
Why monthly rather than quarterly?
Because Utah files many businesses monthly. The Tax Commission puts a business on monthly sales-tax returns once its annual sales-tax liability passes $50,000.
How does payroll withholding fit the close?
It has its own dates. Utah employers file TC-941E withholding returns by April 30, July 31, October 31 and January 31.
Does a monthly close cover payables and receivables?
A close reviews both: who owes the business and how late they are, and what the business owes and when it is due. A receivable nobody chases for a year is a bad-debt question, not a bookkeeping one.
What goes into a monthly close
- Record every sale, deposit, bill and payment for the month.
- Match each bank, card and loan account to its statement, and explain any difference.
- Review what customers owe and what the business owes.
- Book payroll from the payroll provider's reports.
- Review the month's profit and loss and balance sheet against the month before, and ask about anything that moved.
The Utah dates a close has to beat
| Return | Due | Filed on |
|---|---|---|
| Utah sales and use tax | The last day of the month after the filing period | TC-62S or TC-62M, electronically |
| Utah withholding | April 30, July 31, October 31, January 31 | TC-941E; the January return is also the annual return |
Which calendar applies depends on the account: the Tax Commission files a business quarterly at $50,000 or less of annual sales-tax liability, monthly above that. A monthly filer needs each month closed within weeks of its end, or the return is filed from estimates.
Monthly close or a year-end scramble
A business that closes monthly reaches December with eleven months already final. One that does not does all twelve in January, alongside the year-end deadlines.
The monthly deliverables, schedule and software are pending confirmation and will appear here, with a reviewed date, once confirmed.
When to hand this to a preparer
Hand the books over when keeping them costs more hours than the business can spare, or when they stop agreeing with the bank.
Excite Tax keeps these books; the return they feed is reviewed and signed by a licensed CPA at TBD CPA LLC.
Sources
- Utah State Tax Commission, Sales and Use Tax · retrieved September 2026
- Utah State Tax Commission, Withholding Tax · retrieved September 2026
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