depending on your original account, if it has a minimum balance to avoid fees you might want to leave the minimum balance in there and transfer the rest first.

depending on your original account, if it has a minimum balance to avoid fees you might want to leave the minimum balance in there and transfer the rest first. Then close the account officially and get a check for the remainder. the reason is that if you transfer it all and it goes under a minimum deposit, you could get a fee and then you are overdrawn, generating more fees and more overdraw. Generally just taking all money out of an account doesn't automatically close it.