
Documents for your accountant: a checklist and handoff message
Check your files before sending and prepare a message for your accountant, with the company, period and missing documents clearly listed.
Business and document management
Handoff checklists, cover notes and a record of missing or late documents.
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Check your files before sending and prepare a message for your accountant, with the company, period and missing documents clearly listed.

A regular monthly handover, a missing document, a supplement and a correction. Choose a message that tells your accountant what they received and what still needs attention.

You do not need to sort your entire inbox every day. What matters is capturing context before it disappears, agreeing on handover and knowing what to do when the plan falls apart.

From your accountant’s reminder to a retrieved document: how to use purchase clues, when to contact the supplier and what to tell your accountant in the meantime.

How to clearly add a late-arriving document, distinguish it from a correction and avoid mistaking your own month label for an accounting decision.
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