Austin Bookkeeping CompanyThe reports this close will not sign

We keep the monthly close. Payday stays on your provider. Our part is recording the setup against the company that actually pays the crew. Statements wait until every deposit in the month already matches the bank line for line. The return we prepare is built from the months we already closed. October is still early enough, on this calendar, to talk through a choice that would change the year.

That list is the offer. It is the help people are usually reaching for when the month is a mess, even when the words they first used were larger than the need.

A signed audit leaves. A signed review leaves. A signed compilation leaves. An opinion on financial statements leaves. An examination of prospective figures leaves. A set of agreed procedures leaves. Those are assurance, and assurance is signed by a firm that holds that authority.

On the first call we name which piece, if any, is in that pile. We do not bury it inside a yes. The close itself can begin that same week, beside the report we are sending out. The statute numbers behind that limit are written out on the disclosures page, section by section.

Every Texan knows the Capitol as the place the state's rules are written. From Dallas those sections are already the ones we cite when a letter asks for a signature this practice does not hold. The sections that draw this line live there, and we cite them on the disclosures page rather than turning them into a mood.

You do not need a meeting under the dome to hear the limit. A video call is enough. If a bank letter asks for a signature we do not hold, we will say that in the first ten minutes and point you to a firm that can sign it.

A bank letter that asks for compiled financial statements is asking for the signature we do not hold. A letter that asks for a year of bank tied statements and a tax return is asking for the work we do. The sentences in the letter decide the path.

When a letter mixes both requests, we split them in the reply. The statements and the return can be prepared here. The compilation line is named and handed to a firm that can sign it. We do not staple our close to their letterhead, and we do not ask them to pretend our months are their signature.

Send the exact wording of the bank letter when the ask is unclear, and the first call sorts the signature from the close. The first call is for that sorting. Paid work, if any, starts only after the split is clear and a written scope exists.

You asked for a compilation for a lender. We do not sign that. We can still close the months the lender will read, set payroll up, and prepare the return. The compilation itself goes to a firm allowed to sign it. Both things can be true.

You asked whether we are the right people for the books. If the need is the close and the return, yes. If the need is a signature on an assurance report, the answer is the other firm, and we will not dress the close up as that signature.