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Who would close your month, by name.

Outsourced bookkeeping companies are easy to collect in tabs. The useful question is which human closes the books.

Block 01A logo does not close a month

Ask for the name of the person who will tie last month, and the name of the person who covers that work if they are out. If the proposal cannot answer, you are buying a queue.

On this desk the name is Steven Palmieri. The footer phone is his, and the return is prepared by the same person who closed the month.

See the page that lands by the tenth

Block 02What you should be able to point at

The marked row is the test. If nobody will own it by the tenth, the rest of the proposal is a brochure.

What you hold by the tenth
  1. nameBy the tenthLast month tied, or a plain note that it is not
  2. What movedOne change, with a reason you can repeat
  3. Owner paySet with the tax election in view, before the return is drafted
  4. OctoberThe year priced while there is still time to act on it
A test for a proposal. No client file is shown.

Block 03The chair is not a license

Closing a month and preparing a return is ordinary work, and the person in this chair holds no CPA license. Signed audits, reviews, compilations and assurance reports stay with a firm that holds one, and that gets named before anybody discusses a start date.

Payday can be set up from this chair and is run by you on a provider you own. Nobody here stands in for you in an examination. The rest of it is written out on the disclosures page.

Source. The holding-out and reports rules at Texas Occupations Code sections 901.451, 901.453 and 901.456, read 29 September 2026 for a chair that starts inside this month.

Block 04Breadth and height, applied to a name

Breadth is that one named person keeping the books and the return together. Height is a CFO seat you can call, rather than a ticket number.

Block 05Out loud

I was comparing outsourced bookkeeping companies. I needed a name that would still be there on the tenth.

Book a Tax CFO meeting

Block 06Tell us where your month stands

You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.

You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.

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