What a month includes
Four taps. Finished means the same deposits, both places.
One span. One deposit at a time.
We finish the open months, one deposit at a time, until the bank and the books agree. What you sign later is a return made only from months the bank already agrees with. Steven Palmieri carries the Tax CFO title on this close and finishes it beside you.
Ask about the books
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A month is finished only after every deposit on the statement has a name.
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Payday stays on the service you already use. We set up the company that actually pays people, before the first run, and you keep the login.
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The return is built only from finished months. An open month waits outside it, so you never sign a year you have not seen.
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On the twentieth the sales tax is due. We split the state, city and transit pieces in the month the customer paid, so filing day is a copy, not a scramble. When the Fair is on, a Fair Park shop's September deposits swell. The swell is still just sales. We name it in the month it landed, so the twentieth is no surprise.
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Bring the month that is still open. We will tell you what should happen to it next, before any paid work starts.
Click to read the questions owners bring ›Tap to read the questions owners bring ›Steven Palmieri closes these books. The return is built from that close.
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Steven Palmieri is the Tax CFO named on the first screen, and the Entrepreneur's CFO who closes these books with us.
Name the last month that tied to the bank, and say whether you need the close, pay setup, or the return.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.
You came for the month tied to the bank, pay placed on the login you already keep, reconciliations, statements, reports, and the return built from those tied months. These pages describe that work and nothing beside it.
A reconciliation here means the statement and the books show the same deposits and the same checks. A statement that only looks tidy on a screen is still an open month.
Financial statements are those closed months written so you, a bank, or a buyer can read them. They carry the totals the bank already showed. They do not carry a signature that gives assurance.
Reports follow the same totals. The sales tax report, the franchise report, and the return each read the months that already tie. An open month stays off every one of them until it ties.
When we walk Deep Ellum with you, Elm Street is still where the name comes from, and those blocks still reach Exposition after they leave the downtown freeway. You hear the music room. We hear it too, and then we ask whether the Saturday deposit already has a name in the books.
We will stand in the Pecan Lodge line for brisket with you. You are waiting on the plate. We are already wondering whether that Saturday deposit has a name in the books, or whether the month is still one unnamed line.
A full Saturday in one of those rooms is still a deposit that needs a name before filing day. What we bring back is that named deposit, whether the room was packed or empty.
When the fair opens we go when you go. Since 1952 the figure in the middle of those grounds is where we agree to meet, the same way you do. You look up. We turn to the extra fair week deposits and ask if a quiet Tuesday would have been named the same way, before that month is allowed to close.
Show week at Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center fills the big rooms downtown, and we still use the shorter name for that hall, just as you would. After the show we enjoy that crowd with you, then we ask whether each deposit on the statement already has a name before the report goes in.
You do not have to recall which night those rooms were packed. The bank already listed the deposit. We give that line a name before the report goes in.
When a lender wants a name on an assurance report, that request leaves this practice. We say that on the opening call, and we point the requested signature toward a firm that is allowed to sign an audit, a review, or a compilation.
The close can continue on that same call. Pay can be placed on the login you already keep. Statements that carry no assurance, and a return built only from tied months, can continue here too.
The long version of that limit, including how a page on this site is checked, sits on the disclosures page. The short version sits on the limits page.
Three facts set the fee, and a short call shows all three. The count of months that have not tied. The count of bank accounts those months touch. Whether pay setup is still in front of you.
This site prints no average fee. The call itself carries no bill. You and we both sign the scope and the fee before any paid month starts.
If the year is far behind, we name how many months the first pass can close. If the year is current, we start with whatever month you have open today, and the return reads that close.
