Cut Through the Clutter and Make Month-End Less Painful
Month-end doesn’t have to feel like tax season every four weeks. If you’re in production finance, you already know the pressure that comes with reconciling accounts, finalising cost reports, and fielding urgent emails from producers who needed answers yesterday.
That’s why Eclipse was built not just for bookkeeping—but for calm, accurate production finance reporting under pressure. Whether you’re closing the books on a TV series, a feature film, or multiple slates, the tools you need are already at your fingertips.
Here’s how Eclipse can help make your month-end close process smoother, faster, and less frustrating.
1. Use Built-In Reporting Tools to Save Time
Eclipse’s reporting tools are tailored specifically for production environments. Instead of cobbling together data from multiple systems or exporting to Excel for hours of formatting, you can run comprehensive reports with just a few clicks.
Key reports to leverage:
- Trial Balance and General Ledger: Ensure every journal entry is accounted for.
- Cost Report: Break down costs by budget category or sets to identify variances quickly.
- Accounts Payable Aging: Track overdue payments and invoices to resolve before month-end.
👉 Pro tip: Create report option templates so you don’t need to set filters or columns every time. Just select and go.
2. Attach Source Documents for Instant Reference
Digging through old email chains or desktop folders for an invoice? Not anymore.
With Eclipse, you can attach documents directly to transactions—making audits, reviews, and reconciliations a breeze. You’ll spend less time hunting for backup and more time actually analysing the numbers.
Attachables include:
- Invoices
- Timesheets
- Purchase orders
- Bank statements
- Approval emails
This feature is especially valuable during reconciliations, when you need to cross-reference quickly and confidently.
3. Streamline Reconciliations with Built-In Checks
Reconciling accounts at month-end is often the bottleneck. Eclipse helps you speed this up with reconciliation tools that:
- Flag mismatches automatically
- Highlight uncoded transactions
- Help track down unapproved or unposted entries
Instead of manually combing through ledgers and exports, let Eclipse alert you to what’s off—so you can fix it fast.
4. Keep Your Workflow Centralised
Juggling multiple spreadsheets, emails, and folders adds confusion. With Eclipse, everything related to your month-end close process—from approvals to attachments to final reports—is centralised.
This makes collaboration easier, especially for remote teams or when onboarding new accountants mid-production.
5. Train Your Team (and Yourself) Using TPH’s Knowledge Base
Even if you’re familiar with Eclipse, there’s always a faster or better way to do something. The TPH Global Wiki is packed with how-to’s, walkthroughs, and video guides to help you and your team become Eclipse experts—without a dozen support emails.
Looking for a step-by-step on running a report or reconciling an account? You’ll find it there.
Final Thoughts
Month-end will probably never be fun—but it doesn’t have to be chaos. With Eclipse’s built-in reporting tools, document management, and reconciliation features, you can take the stress out of your production finance reporting workflow.
Next month, give yourself a head start by setting up those saved reports, centralizing your documents, and letting Eclipse do more of the heavy lifting.
Need help configuring your Eclipse reports for month-end? Contact TPH Support or check out the knowledge base to learn more.
