Six CFO guidelines to help you focus on end-of-year deadlines while negotiating the Thanksgiving-to-New Year’s holiday run and its delightful distractions.

1. Close the books by the 15th of the month
2. Execute your year-end tax strategy
3. Finish your 2007 budget
4. Send your fourth and final corporate estimated income tax payment
5. Take year-end physical inventory of items for resale, finished goods, work in progress and raw materials
6. Tune up your paycheck.

For more on most of these themes please see Take Control of Year-End.