close the books

Well, Speaker Mike Johnson is still trying to close the books on the same spending fight—where to set fiscal year 2024 funding levels—that got McCarthy turfed.

It is scheduled to close the books and price the offering on Sept. 13.

“What I’m looking for is to see whether we’ve really turned a corner. We won’t know until we close the books in the fall.”

As U.S. banks prepare to close the books on a tumultuous quarter, analysts say trading revenue and deposits are among the key numbers to watch when lenders report earnings in mid-April.

Brnovich never broadcast the full findings, declining to close the books on suspicions raised by an interim report with characterizations directly rebutted by his own office.