Accounting alternative, all year
Four taps. April is not the only month.
The other eleven months live here too.
Steven Palmieri is a Tax CFO, not a CPA firm and not an accounting firm. A Tax CFO closes each month to the bank and only then prepares the return, with the other eleven months already read. The free call shows the floor under your last filing.
You would be speaking with the accounting alternative, a Tax CFO, not a CPA firm. If a lender wants a signed review, we separate that from the return and say who signs it.
We close each month so your books match the bank. We set up payroll on the provider you already run, and then we prepare the return, with Steven Palmieri, a Tax CFO, while you can still plan this year.
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Send the last return and the logins. We read what you already trust before we change anything.
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The return waits for a closed month.
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Three tax dates stay on one closed file.
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Ask about payroll, the return, or a signature.
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Tax CFO and the Entrepreneur's CFO, by video from Dallas.
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Open a month. We show what the books need while the year can still be chosen.
A hotel can be full for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and still need March closed, and in 2027 the show occupies the 2nd through the 21st.
We close that March with you. The show week does not move the close.
Harris County wants the business property list in April.
Steven and his team build that list from the books. April is the month the county asks for the property list, and we build it from the books, not from memory.
Our franchise page leaves the file during May, built from months the bank already matched. The Offshore Technology Conference lands early that month, and that conference week still has to be closed before the page goes out.
We prepare the report from months that are already closed, including that conference week.
The impact fee at the Houston Permitting Center changes on the first of July in 2026. A bid written before that date feels the change on the job.
We stay on the file in July, while choices for the year are still open.
Owner pay and a purchase can still be chosen. Houston ISD has families in school, and every Texan parent knows that calendar.
We walk those pay choices with you before the year ends.
January opens on the months the bank already matched, and we build the return from that stack.
The return follows those months. We do not promise a refund.
The tax return comes from months that already match the bank, and you can still plan this year. City sales tax, the Harris County property list, and the franchise report stay on that same file. Ask about payroll setup, the tax return, or a report that needs a signature. Steven Palmieri is the Tax CFO and the Entrepreneur's CFO, and the monthly close is done by video from Dallas.
You may have a storefront quote, a friend's name, and a firm proposal on the kitchen table. Ask which page names the person who will still answer you in July.
The books stay current with us, the return is prepared after those months close, and the choices for this year are still on the table.
When a show fills the George R. Brown Convention Center, deposits jump for the shops and hotels around it. We close that month with the rest of the year, on the same day we close a quiet month.
A return we prepare can describe only those months where the bank balance already matches. A month you still remember can be closed this week. After April, we are still the people who pick up the phone.
When you leave a preparer, ask for the last return, the election on file, the logins, and the last two reports you trust. The list can start while an older month is still messy.
Pay dates remain on the system your office already uses to run payday. We write those accounts into the file once, and the next pay date is still yours to send.
Bring the newest month the bank already matches, or the last return. We will say whether this year can still be planned from that stack.
A proposal that lists an audit, then a review, then a compilation, is a request for a signature this practice will not make. The first call says so. The books can still be put in order here, and the return can follow them. That boundary is written on this site's disclosures page.
When a lender asks for paper, the usual stack is the last returns, a list of what is still owed, and one month the bank already matches. We do not make the loan.
Read the books. We will say what the books still need, and whether the return can follow them this year.
We do not publish a rate card. A catch-up of quiet months is quoted on its own, and the monthly close is a second number once the bank feed is already running.
We name those before you commit. Catching up a quiet stretch is priced from the months that are actually missing. A shop that skipped two months is not the same job as a shop that skipped a year, so no average is printed here.
The first month we finish is one you can hand over without a second apology. We sit with you while that month is still open, and we write down the items that are not ready yet.
Until the bank matches a month, that month stays open. Only the months the bank already accepts are used when the return is prepared.
We file the company pages only after your personal pages use the same wage and the same draw. If March still shows a deposit the bank never received, that one month is the only one we reopen.
After that, the months stay closed. In July we talk through what changed, while there is still time to act.
If the week disappears in the crawl on the Katy Freeway, Interstate 10 still does not move the close. We close the month those hours belong to before the next month opens.
A night at the downtown ballpark that opened in 2000, the one with a roof that can close over the field, can drop a large deposit into a shop's week. We close the month that holds that night in the same week the lights go dark.
On a receipt inside the city, Houston METRO is 1 point, the city is 1 point, and the state is 6.25, and those three together are 8.25 percent. Harris County adds no county sales tax, so a Katy Freeway shop and a shop inside the Loop show that same combined rate when both addresses are inside the city.
Harris County equipment is listed with the Harris Central Appraisal District, and April is the ordinary month for that list. A written request can slide the Harris County list into May. The Texas franchise report goes out in May from months that are already closed. A federal return that already went out still leaves the property list and the franchise report as their own pages.
Contractors will feel a Houston Permitting Center impact fee change on the first of July in 2026. A bid written before that date can be wrong after it. The books should know which jobs sit on which side of the change.
We meet on a call. This site lists no office and no street. A proposal that prints a street address does not move these Texas dates.
A meeting can be on a call. After the first close, the bank feed keeps running and each finished month gets a few lines about what changed.
People who arrive with three proposals leave knowing who would answer in July, and what should move with them if they switch.
One proposal, one closed month, or the question itself is enough to bring. We will say whether we should take the file.
Original Ninfa's on Navigation is an easy working lunch. If that lunch is a client meal, we look at the afternoon deposit and ask which bank line already holds it.
Tell us whether you need the books caught up, payroll set up, or the return prepared.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.
