Bookkeeper in Rockwall, a CPA alternative.

People arrive with two programs that both think they own the sale. One program is where the job was billed. The other is where the bank is reconciled. Until those two agree, the month is a guess wearing a neat total.

What you get here is a closed set of books, a payroll setup you keep running on a provider, reconciliations, statements, and a return that uses those closed months. Around Rockwall that close is done by Steven Palmieri, under the titles Tax CFO and the Entrepreneur's CFO, together with Steven and his team.

The first close is often the slow one. Old deposits that never found an invoice, fees that were netted by a processor, and a sales tax balance that has been copied forward all show up together. We name them before we pretend the new month is clean.

A feed downloads what the bank already knows. It does not decide which invoice a deposit belongs to. A suggested match is a guess from an amount and a date. We accept a match only when the invoice, the deposit, and the fee tell one story.

Unmatched rows stay visible on purpose. Hiding them to make a screen look finished is how a duplicate sale survives until the return. If a check has been open so long that the bank will never see it, we void it or reissue it, and we say which expense moved.

Two programs make this harder, not different. The same customer can pay in the billing program while the books still show the invoice open. The deposit then looks like extra income. We would rather void one invoice than explain a doubled year in March.

We set up the payroll file with you. The payday run, and the tax deposits that ride with each payday, stay at a payroll company you already use or one you name during that setup. This practice does not run payday, and it does not hold the tax deposits that go with it. If the provider's report and the books disagree, that disagreement is part of the monthly close, not a surprise in January.

Contractors are a cousin of that work. A vendor paid by card is usually outside the January information return. A vendor paid by check or transfer needs a form W-9 before the year gets loud. When the same person is paid from two programs, we add the two totals before anyone files.

Filing while a month still disagrees with the bank puts a signature on a guess, and we refuse that. Once the months are closed, sales tax, the franchise report, and the income tax return can share one set of figures. You still choose the elections. After December is tied, we can show which of those elections the numbers actually allow.

October is the useful argument, not a slogan. A purchase, a bonus, or a cleanup of old inventory can still change the year. After 31 December the books can be made neat, and the year itself has already happened.

If a lender later wants someone to tell an outsider the figures were examined, we name that on the first call and point to a firm the state lets sign. Disclosures is the only page that walks through the statute numbers. The monthly file can be finished beside the lake while that other firm writes the cover.

Access to the book file, the last month anyone trusted, and the question you actually have. You can describe the mess before anyone shares a bank password. Any later login is written into the scope, and you shut it off the week the work stops.

Neighbors still get a neighbor's attention. A short term rental here has had to register since the spring of 2024, and we ask the same question we ask of a shop. Did that money land in the company or in a personal account. Downtown, the Main Street grant pays part of a storefront repair back to the shop. We like that square the way you do, and then we ask which program recorded the reimbursement, because a grant in the wrong till is just another deposit the bank will not explain.

We like Friday night at Rockwall High or Rockwall-Heath the way you do. The next morning we ask which till that deposit came from.

We like I-30 and Highway 205 the way you do, because those are the roads through Rockwall. When a carton leaves on one of them, we read the ship-to before we write the sales tax return.