# Soft close

> Soft close — A period state in which routine posting has stopped and only adjusting entries by a controller are accepted. In common usage also an abbreviated month-end that estimates rather than fully reconciles — directional numbers, never the basis for external reporting.

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**What is soft close?** In accounting, soft close means a period state in which routine posting has stopped and only adjusting entries by a controller are accepted. In common usage also an abbreviated month-end that estimates rather than fully reconciles — directional numbers, never the basis for external reporting.

## Words this system refuses for it

- closed
- draft close

- **Category:** Close
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/11-lexicon)
- **Related:** posting, period, basis, close