After delivery celebration, the project number still takes reimbursements. People are at the next site; airfare posts to the old project. Close project without close books and costs grow in orphaned codes—completed profit gets drained backward. Project end is a finance event: close time, purchasing, expense types; freeze remaining budget; tail items through change control.
Open codes allow anonymous charges to a story that already ended.
Close Checklist Includes Finance
Delivery acceptance, open POs, unreported expenses, time entry cutoff, warranty accrual. Checklist complete before code close. Emergency back-posts need approval—charge next period, not quietly reopen old numbers. Multi-project staff default time to new project; old project read-only.
- Overdue unclosed projects hit finance red—decoupled from delivery hero narratives.
- Outsource contracts bind to project number—close means no new invoices.
- Profit reports freeze at close; later hits go to warranty accounts only.
Close Code Is Honesty About Profit
The XYN digital intelligence system binds project status to expense and time permissions—close project closes books. Less flexibility, clearer profit—not diluted by "not closed yet." Next project budgets improve when old books stop leaking.
List delivered projects that still accept expenses. If you can list them, books are not closed—close first, then talk next project margin.
