Automate month-end close workpapers
Month-end close workpapers are the supporting documents that evidence every balance, adjustment, and journal entry in your financial close. Preparing them manually — extracting data from the GL, populating templates, referencing sources — consumes hours every cycle. Rima automates this entirely. Send your GL export and close documents via Slack or email and get back completed, reviewer-ready workpapers in your Excel templates.
How it works
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Send your GL export and close documents
Drop your GL export, trial balance, and supporting schedules into your Rima Slack channel or email them directly. Any format your ERP produces is accepted.
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Rima extracts, structures and populates your templates
Rima reads your source documents, applies your workpaper structure and formatting, and populates every field — matching your naming conventions and sign-off requirements.
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Review your completed workpapers in Excel
Rima delivers finished, reviewer-ready workpapers directly to your Excel templates — fully referenced, formatted, and ready for sign-off.
What Rima handles
Every close workpaper, automated
Trial balance workpapers
Prepare trial balance workpapers with supporting schedules from your GL export.
Journal entry support
Compile supporting documentation for every journal entry recorded in the close.
Accrual and prepayment schedules
Prepare accrual and prepayment workpapers with calculations and source references.
Account reconciliation workpapers
Produce reconciliation workpapers for key balance sheet accounts with source documentation.
Variance commentary workpapers
Prepare period-on-period variance analysis workpapers with annotated explanations.
Close checklist and sign-off tracking
Populate your close checklist template with completed items and reviewer fields.
What you get
Fully managed. Always audit-ready.
3-hour SLA
Every workpaper request is completed within 3 hours, 24/7.
Full audit trail
Every figure is traced back to its source document.
Your Excel templates
Workpapers land in your existing templates — no reformatting, no copy-paste.
No setup required
Rima deploys and manages the agent — your team just sends requests.
FAQ
Common questions about month-end close workpaper automation
What are month-end close workpapers?
Month-end close workpapers are the supporting documents prepared during the monthly close process — including journal entry support, account reconciliations, accrual schedules, and other working papers that evidence the accuracy of the financial statements. They provide the audit trail for every balance and adjustment recorded in the close.
How does Rima automate month-end close workpaper preparation?
You send your GL export, trial balance, and supporting documents to Rima via Slack or email. Rima extracts the relevant data, populates your firm's workpaper templates, applies your formatting and naming conventions, and delivers completed, reviewer-ready workpapers in Excel.
Does Rima work with our existing workpaper templates?
Yes. Rima populates your existing Excel workpaper templates — maintaining your firm's formatting, structure, naming conventions, and sign-off fields. No need to change how you work.
What close documents does Rima work with?
Rima works with GL exports, trial balances, bank statements, invoice files, ERP reports, and any other supporting documents you use in your close process. Send whatever your systems produce.
How long does workpaper preparation take with Rima?
Rima completes every workpaper preparation request within a 3-hour SLA, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Part of Workpaper Prep
Month-end close is one of many workpaper types Rima automates.
Ready to automate your month-end close workpapers?
Send your close documents to Rima and get back completed, reviewer-ready workpapers in your Excel templates.