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Reconciliations bring each account to the bank before the month is called finished, and you get financial statements and reports you can actually read.

We take the months that fell behind and close them in order until the bank and the books agree. The payroll company already charging your account keeps running, and the monthly close is written beside those pay entries. Nothing from an open month gets typed onto either return we prepare with you. We say which month is still open before a lender asks for the statements. Then we look at owner pay, a purchase, and the company's tax shape while the year can still use the answer.

You opened this page because March is still sitting open on the books. The bank and the books do not agree yet. A directory can name every office in town and that month still waits. We match it. The payroll login already on the account keeps cutting the checks, and both returns are prepared from the months we closed with you.

Maybe a bank asked for the statements. Maybe a buyer wants the file. The last month you trust is the month we open first. You name it. We see the landlord who wants last quarter before a new lease, and the number is not ready yet. Relief is handing that month over and watching the list shrink.

We take the months that fell behind, match them to the bank, and leave a close you can use. Steven Palmieri, a Tax CFO, is in that work with you.

Three questions decide the rest. Which month still does not match the bank. Who finishes that month. Whether you need the books and a return, or a signed audit this practice does not give.

Older months get cleaned up so the return follows the books you actually kept. A month is left open until every account has been tied to that month's bank statement. The month you are in now is matched to the bank, rather than left open until spring.

A few choices can still count in this year if you make them before December. Owner pay, a purchase, the way the company is taxed. Once the year has closed, those choices can only be reported.

The cleanup puts the older months in order. The close you are in gets finished while you can still use the number. The rest of the year is a set of choices you can look at while they can still change the return.

The price follows your file. It depends on how many transactions you have, how many accounts are open, whether payroll is set up, how far behind the books are, and whether the return is in the work.

We name those before you commit to anything. Catch up is priced on its own when the months are behind. This page does not print an average, because an average would be someone else's file.

A shop with one bank and a clean feed is a different file from a contractor with job costs and three cards. The number we name follows this shop's transactions, and it is not a posted rate. You can stop after you hear the number. The first conversation does not sign you up.

Month one ends with a close both of you can defend, one conversation, and a written list of anything still unresolved.

Your company return and your own return both come from those same closed months, so a number is not told two ways. We open an older month again only when that month and the bank do not match.

After that, the months stay closed. You can look at the year instead of looking for the last person who had the file.

You will know a month is done when the bank and the books tell the same story and a short note says what is still open. That note is yours. The next month starts from it, so those months are not still open when spring arrives.

A sale inside the city limits is taxed at 8.25 percent. Of that, 6.25 is the state, 1 is the city, and 1 is DART. The county does not pile a further sales tax on that receipt, since DART already occupies the local share. We look at a Saturday deposit and ask whether the transit piece is already in the books before the sales tax day. We check that piece on the same books we closed with you, so the rate and the receipt tell one story.

Business personal property in Dallas County is reported by 15 April, unless a written request carries the same report out to 15 May. The franchise report for Texas lands on that same May date. Filing the federal return leaves both of those still to do.

A busy fall still asks whether the summer months were closed by then or those months are still open. We see a restaurant that staffed extra people for the rush, and we ask whether those receipts already match the bank. We ask that question while the year can still use the answer.

A deposit that lands on Monday belongs with the sales it came from. We put it in that month before the sales tax report is prepared, so the report follows the closed month instead of a guess about the weekend.

We keep a short list of the dates that belong on this file, and a date gets ticked only after the month under it matches the bank. A form that is ready while the month is still open is still a scramble.

A landlord who wants last quarter while the shop is still serving people is asking for a closed month. We finish that quarter on the same books, so the request arrives after the bank has already agreed.

The monthly work lives in your file. After a close you get a short note, and that note is checked against the bank feed before the next month starts. You already know which month feels wrong. That is the month we open.

You need the books, the return, and the decisions before the year ends. We can give you that help. If part of the file needs a signature we do not give, you hear that before you commit.