Austin Bookkeeping CompanyQuestions with a straight answer

No. March stays March. A quiet July is allowed to look quiet. Sharing the festival week across the calm months makes every month a little dishonest, and the return inherits the lie.

If you want a note that says the year was uneven, we can write that note beside the months. The months themselves stay at the size they happened.

You do. We set payroll up on the company that pays people, on the provider you already use. After that, each pay date is yours. The books then agree to the provider's register. We do not sit in the provider and send the pay.

The monthly close, statements after the bank agrees, payroll setup, and the return prepared from those months. While October can still move a choice, we talk through the year on the same screen as the bank tie. That is the work.

Assurance reports are absent from that offer. The disclosures page is where the absence is written out, including the statute numbers.

No. In this city the local part of sales tax is 2 percent. One percent goes to the city and one percent goes to Capital Metro, the transit authority the Comptroller lists as the Austin MTA. State tax is 6.25 percent. The total people pay on the card is 8.25 percent.

If the whole 8.25 stays inside the sales number, profit is thick by the transit slice and the city slice. We move both out before anyone reads the month.

Sixth Street was Pecan Street before the signs changed, the old run from Lavaca east to the interstate. The Dallas practice already knows a painted name and a deposit name can disagree, the way Pecan Street and Sixth Street name one run of road. A name on a sign and a name on a bank deposit are allowed to differ.

The books follow the name printed on the deposit, even when the painted sign is shorter. The name painted on the glass can be shorter, older, or friendlier. The return starts from the deposit name, the way a street keeps its history without changing the map you file.

A tied month is quiet in the best way. The bank balance on the statement and the bank balance in the books are the same figure on the same day. Checks still out are listed. Deposits that left the register and have not reached the bank yet are listed too.

Owner money that moved between a personal account and the shop is labeled as owner money. It does not turn into sales because the balance looked healthier, and it does not turn into an expense because the balance looked thinner.

A bank line with no home sits in a holding spot with a date and a question. It does not vanish into a plug with no name. The month stays open until that line has a home or a written reason it is still waiting.

The return wants income that matches deposits after the tax is pulled out, and expenses that match bills in the month they belonged to. A receipt from October typed in January is a January story about an October fact. We move it back.

Payroll setup has to agree with the wages the return will show. A wage total on the provider that does not match the wage total in the books holds the return until the two registers name the same year. We do not pick the prettier of the two totals and hope the letter never comes.

Estimated payments and the franchise report sit on the same calendar as the close. May 15 is a real date for many entities. A close that is current through April makes that morning a filing. A close that is still a pile makes it a reconstruction, and reconstructions are priced on their own.

Access to the bank, the last month you trust, and the question you actually have. A tidy binder is not required. If the months are behind, say that. It saves the first half of the call.

The first conversation carries no fee. A written scope and a written fee come after we can see the open months, the accounts, and whether payroll still needs setup.