Certified Public Accountant Dallas AlternativeFinish the month before the return
We close each month with you, set payroll up on the service you already run, and prepare the return from those months. Steven Palmieri is the Tax CFO, and the Entrepreneur's CFO, who keeps that monthly work beside the return.
Ask about the books
Months tied to the bank.
Payroll setup on your service.
A return from those months.
Close every month
A blue glass tower against the afternoon sky is a sight we enjoy with you, and the month that tower stands in still has to close.
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Payroll setup
We line up at Pecan Lodge the way you do, and that Deep Ellum week still belongs in the books.
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Prepare the return
We prepare the return after the months match the bank. The harder blue of that tower is just the afternoon, and we still add the closed months up on the return.
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The fair still closes
When Fair Park opens we enjoy Big Tex with you, and we wonder what those buildings are worth on the books.
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A question first
A show at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center is a week we feel with you, and the close keeps its rhythm after.
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Steven Palmieri is the Tax CFO on the monthly books and the return.
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The empty box is the monthly close.
YouSigns itHere
You still approve each payday, and you still sign the return after we have closed the months.
The bankMatches cashHere
We call a month finished only when the bank and the books report the same cash.
PaydayStays putHere
We set payroll up on the service you already use so wages and draws land where the books can read them.
The closeStill openMissing
This box is still empty. The monthly close is the part of the year we are here to hold, and it stays open until someone keeps it.
EstimatesThis yearHere
We set estimates from the months already closed this year, rather than slicing last year's bill into four equal guesses.
Fair weekStill closesHere
Big Tex has stood as the meeting spot since 1952, and we still close the fair month against the bank the same week everyone else is at Fair Park.
Payroll setup, the monthly close, and the return stay with Steven Palmieri in both the Tax CFO role and the Entrepreneur's CFO role. We close a fair week and a quiet month on the same pass, with the cash tied to the bank before anyone calls the month finished. Steven and his team keep payroll on that close, and the return is the last page of the stack.
Start the books
Name the open month, and say whether payday is running.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.
A finished month
Read the close
A finished month is the one where cash matches, categories hold, and nothing is waiting on a question you have not answered. Credit cards and loan balances ride in that same pass. After the close you should be able to name the cash that arrived, the cash that left, and the question that is still sitting there.
If a deposit cannot be named, we leave the month open. We do the tie-out and then leave the categories alone so one year can sit next to the next. Reports come from that month, not from a reconstruction done when the return is due.
You should not have to remember a transfer from last spring because nobody wrote it down. A spring transfer gets a category in the month the bank shows it, so next March you are not reconstructing it from memory. That is the whole point of closing on a rhythm instead of in a rush.
Payroll on your service
Read payroll setup
Payday stays in your hands. We set payroll up on the service you already use so wages, withholdings, and owner draws land in the books the same way every month. You still approve the run. We make sure those amounts show up where the books can read them.
A new hire, a raise, or a draw that changed in the summer is named in that month. It is not discovered when the return is already on the table. Approval of each run stays with you.
Leave the payroll login off the first note. The service's name is enough for the setup conversation to start in the right place. After that, the amounts have a home in the books and the month can close.
After the months
Read the return
We prepare the return from months we have already closed, so the numbers on it already agree with the bank. By the time you sign, you have seen the shape of the year in the monthly reading. Estimates follow those closed months rather than last year's bill cut into four equal guesses.
Sales tax, franchise tax, and the 1099s go out on the dates that belong to them. An extension, when one is useful, is a choice we make with you on purpose. It is not a scramble the night before a deadline.
A year of closed months is a calmer return. A year of open months is a reconstruction, and reconstructions eat the weeks you wanted for decisions. We would rather spend those weeks on the choices that are still open.
A busy week
Read the rhythm
Lower Greenville, between Mercedes and Belmont, is a stretch we enjoy with you, and that week still needs a category. A packed week should show up as a packed week. A quiet month should close the same way, get reconciled, and be put away. The work in front of us is tying cash to the bank, putting payday on the service you already run, and handing you statements you can read before the return is prepared.
If the busy week is a show, the deposits still need a category before anyone calls the month finished. If the quiet month has one odd transfer, that transfer is named now. Waiting makes the memory of it thinner.
Clean numbers are the ordinary result of that rhythm. A statement can name the cash, the payroll, and the question still open, because each of those was written down while the month was still easy to remember.
The first note
Read the first note
Tell us which month you last trusted, whether payday is already running, and whether you want the return in the same scope. That is enough for us to say what the first stretch of work looks like. A website cannot see how far behind the months are, so a website does not name your fee.
If more months are open than the note said, we say so before extra work begins. You can stop before you sign. Nothing in that first conversation hires us, and no duty keeps running by itself afterward.
Bring the name of the bank and the name of the payroll service if you have them. Leave the passwords off the form. We would rather hear the shape of the year in your words than guess it from a file we have not seen.