diff --git a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Amount.hs b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Amount.hs
index 796e2a9bf..2aec34e9d 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Amount.hs
+++ b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Amount.hs
@@ -605,12 +605,13 @@ amountStyleApplyWithRounding iscost q news@AmountStyle{asprecision=newp, asround
     HardRounding -> news{asprecision=if iscost then oldp else newp}
     AllRounding  -> news
 
--- | Set this amount style's rounding strategy when being applied to amounts.
+-- | Set this amount style's rounding strategy when it is being applied to amounts.
 amountStyleSetRounding :: Rounding -> AmountStyle -> AmountStyle
 amountStyleSetRounding r as = as{asrounding=r}
 
+-- | Set these amount styles' rounding strategy when they are being applied to amounts.
 amountStylesSetRounding :: Rounding -> M.Map CommoditySymbol AmountStyle -> M.Map CommoditySymbol AmountStyle
-amountStylesSetRounding r = M.map (amountStyleSetRounding r) 
+amountStylesSetRounding r = M.map (amountStyleSetRounding r)
 
 -- | Default amount style
 amountstyle = AmountStyle L False Nothing (Just '.') (Precision 0) NoRounding
diff --git a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Close.hs b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Close.hs
index 33f053be0..2e94c1ec6 100644
--- a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Close.hs
+++ b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Close.hs
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import Safe (lastDef, readMay, readDef)
 import System.FilePath (takeFileName)
 import Data.Char (isDigit)
 import Hledger.Read.RulesReader (parseBalanceAssertionType)
+import Hledger.Cli.Commands.Print (roundFlag, amountStylesSetRoundingFromRawOpts)
 
 defclosedesc  = "closing balances"
 defopendesc   = "opening balances"
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ closemode = hledgerCommandMode
   ,flagReq  ["close-acct"]   (\s opts -> Right $ setopt "close-acct" s opts) "ACCT" "set closing transaction's destination account"
   ,flagReq  ["open-desc"]    (\s opts -> Right $ setopt "open-desc"  s opts) "DESC" "set opening transaction's description"
   ,flagReq  ["open-acct"]    (\s opts -> Right $ setopt "open-acct"  s opts) "ACCT" "set opening transaction's source account"
+  ,roundFlag
   ]
   [generalflagsgroup1]
   (hiddenflags
@@ -256,6 +258,8 @@ close copts@CliOpts{rawopts_=rawopts, reportspec_=rspec0} j = do
             ++ [posting{paccount=openacct, pamount=if explicit then mixedAmountSetFullPrecision (maNegate totalamt) else missingmixedamt} | not interleaved]
 
   -- print them
-  maybe (pure ()) (T.putStr . showTransaction) mclosetxn
-  maybe (pure ()) (T.putStr . showTransaction) mopentxn
+  -- allow user-specified rounding with --round, like print
+  let styles = amountStylesSetRoundingFromRawOpts rawopts $ journalCommodityStyles j
+  maybe (pure ()) (T.putStr . showTransaction . styleAmounts styles) mclosetxn
+  maybe (pure ()) (T.putStr . showTransaction . styleAmounts styles) mopentxn
  
diff --git a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Print.hs b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Print.hs
index 64b1d41f1..e3e8d249a 100644
--- a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Print.hs
+++ b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Print.hs
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ module Hledger.Cli.Commands.Print (
   printmode
  ,print'
  -- ,entriesReportAsText
+ ,roundFlag
+ ,roundFromRawOpts
+ ,amountStylesSetRoundingFromRawOpts
  ,transactionWithMostlyOriginalPostings
 )
 where
@@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ import System.Exit (exitFailure)
 import Safe (lastMay, minimumDef)
 import Data.Function ((&))
 import Data.List.Extra (nubSort)
-
+import qualified Data.Map as M
 
 printmode = hledgerCommandMode
   $(embedFileRelative "Hledger/Cli/Commands/Print.txt")
@@ -39,18 +42,7 @@ printmode = hledgerCommandMode
     "show all amounts explicitly"
   ,flagNone ["show-costs"] (setboolopt "show-costs")
     "show transaction prices even with conversion postings"
-  ,flagReq  ["round"] (\s opts -> Right $ setopt "round" s opts) "TYPE" $
-    intercalate "\n"
-    ["how much rounding or padding should be done when displaying amounts ?"
-    ,"none - show original decimal digits,"
-    ,"       as in journal"
-    ,"soft - just add or remove decimal zeros"
-    ,"       to match precision (default)"
-    ,"hard - round posting amounts to precision"
-    ,"       (can unbalance transactions)"
-    ,"all  - also round cost amounts to precision"
-    ,"       (can unbalance transactions)"
-    ]
+  ,roundFlag
   ,flagNone ["new"] (setboolopt "new")
     "show only newer-dated transactions added in each file since last run"
   ,let arg = "DESC" in
@@ -63,6 +55,19 @@ printmode = hledgerCommandMode
   hiddenflags
   ([], Just $ argsFlag "[QUERY]")
 
+roundFlag = flagReq  ["round"] (\s opts -> Right $ setopt "round" s opts) "TYPE" $
+  intercalate "\n"
+  ["how much rounding or padding should be done when displaying amounts ?"
+  ,"none - show original decimal digits,"
+  ,"       as in journal"
+  ,"soft - just add or remove decimal zeros"
+  ,"       to match precision (default)"
+  ,"hard - round posting amounts to precision"
+  ,"       (can unbalance transactions)"
+  ,"all  - also round cost amounts to precision"
+  ,"       (can unbalance transactions)"
+  ]
+
 -- | Get the --round option's value, if any. Can fail with a parse error.
 roundFromRawOpts :: RawOpts -> Maybe Rounding
 roundFromRawOpts = lastMay . collectopts roundfromrawopt
@@ -75,6 +80,14 @@ roundFromRawOpts = lastMay . collectopts roundfromrawopt
       | n=="round"            = error' $ "--round's value should be none, soft, hard or all; got: "++v
       | otherwise             = Nothing
 
+-- | Set these amount styles' rounding strategy when they are being applied to amounts,
+-- according to the value of the --round option, if any.
+amountStylesSetRoundingFromRawOpts :: RawOpts -> M.Map CommoditySymbol AmountStyle -> M.Map CommoditySymbol AmountStyle
+amountStylesSetRoundingFromRawOpts rawopts styles =
+  case roundFromRawOpts rawopts of
+    Just r  -> amountStylesSetRounding r styles
+    Nothing -> styles
+
 -- | Print journal transactions in standard format.
 print' :: CliOpts -> Journal -> IO ()
 print' opts j = do
@@ -105,12 +118,7 @@ printEntries opts@CliOpts{rawopts_=rawopts, reportspec_=rspec} j =
   writeOutputLazyText opts $ render $ entriesReport rspec j
   where
     -- print does user-specified rounding or (by default) no rounding, in all output formats
-    styles =
-      case roundFromRawOpts rawopts of
-        Nothing         -> styles0
-        Just NoRounding -> styles0
-        Just r          -> amountStylesSetRounding r styles0
-      where styles0 = journalCommodityStyles j
+    styles = amountStylesSetRoundingFromRawOpts rawopts $ journalCommodityStyles j
 
     fmt = outputFormatFromOpts opts
     render | fmt=="txt"       = entriesReportAsText           . styleAmounts styles . map maybeoriginalamounts
diff --git a/hledger/test/close.test b/hledger/test/close.test
index 1591b1b19..5cc3f61e3 100644
--- a/hledger/test/close.test
+++ b/hledger/test/close.test
@@ -259,3 +259,16 @@ $ hledger -f- close --migrate -e 2001
 
 >=
 
+# ** 18. close supports --round, like print.
+$ hledger -f- close --migrate -e 2001 --round=hard -c '$1.0'
+2000-12-31 closing balances  ; start:
+    assets:a                               $-1000.0 = $0.0
+    assets:b                               $-1000.0 = $0.0
+    equity:opening/closing balances
+
+2001-01-01 opening balances  ; start:
+    assets:a                                $1000.0 = $1000.0
+    assets:b                                $1000.0 = $1000.0
+    equity:opening/closing balances
+
+>=