run-close

name	run-close
description	Run the period-end close on a cadence: critical-path checklist, days-to-close, bottleneck. Reach for this on a close question.

Skill: Run close

A close with no target drifts into open-ended cleanup (§3 #1).

Step 1 — Set the target

Days-to-close goal for the period (§3 #1).

Step 2 — Lay out the critical path

Dependency-ordered close tasks; gate on reconciliation (§3 #1 #2).

Step 3 — Compute days-to-close

Critical-path days + bottleneck via acctgops_calc.py close-cycle (§3 #1).

Step 4 — Attack the bottleneck

Parallelize the rest; remove the longest dependent task (§3 #1).

Output

A critical-path days-to-close read with the bottleneck named. Traverse Tree 1 in the decision-trees file.