Bookkeeping Company Dallas.What the books cannot sign

The signed reports a lender sometimes wants are an audit, and a review, and a compilation. This bookkeeping close does not put a signature on them and does not offer an opinion on the statements.

If a bank, a buyer, or a landlord asks for one of those signatures, say so on the first call. That signed cover is handed to a firm with authority to sign that cover. The rest of the work can stay here.

Pointing that part outward is said once, on purpose. What stays on this bookkeeping site is the monthly close, plus payroll setup for the paying company, plus the statements and the return. That is the work you came for.

We will name the page we cannot sign before an engagement is written. You will not discover the limit inside a draft.

The books are kept in the name the deposit uses. Each month is closed and tied to the bank. Reports are prepared from those months.

Financial statements can be prepared here when they carry no report and no opinion. The moment a cover page asks for assurance, that page is not ours to sign.

What we file uses only months that already match the bank. Past years get cleaned up before they are filed. The present year is managed as the months close. The months still ahead are where a choice can change the tax.

A statement with no cover page is still useful. It shows cash, what you owe, and what customers owe you, all from a month the bank already agrees with.

On a night the Mavericks play at American Airlines Center, we are as glad as anyone else in the building that the game is on. A vendor in the concourse and the team itself can share that night and still keep separate books.

A request for an audit of one of them is a different job from keeping those books. The books can be closed here. The audit signature cannot.

The same split shows up for a shop. The month can be reconciled here. The signed opinion a lender wants has to come from someone allowed to give it. The disclosures page states the full limit.

Bring the cover page they handed you. We will read the title and tell you whether the books can stay here while the signature goes somewhere else.

You will hear it in plain words on the first call, before any engagement is signed. We will name the piece we cannot sign and the piece we can do.

If the only thing you need is the signature, we will say that too, and we will not invent a project around it.

If you need the books caught up and a return prepared, that work does not wait on the signature someone else has to give.

The first call is the right time for this, not the week the lender's deadline arrives. Say what they asked for, and we will sort the page from the close.

Some owners want the sale counted when the money lands. Others want it counted when the invoice goes out. We will use the method the return already uses, and we will say so before we change it.

Changing that method in the middle of a year makes the statements and the return tell two stories. If a change is worth making, we make it at a year boundary and we write down why.

A profit figure from an open month is only a guess. We would rather show you a shorter month that matches the bank than a longer one that does not.

What you owe, what customers owe you, and what sits in the bank are the three lines owners actually use. Each one comes from a month that already closed.

We match every deposit and every withdrawal to a line in the books. A bank fee with no line, or a deposit with no sale, stays on a note until you and we know what it was.

Uncleared checks stay visible. We do not drop them just to make the ending balance look tidy.

A credit card that is paid from the deposit account is reconciled too. The payment is not a cost by itself. The costs are the charges that posted to the card.

When the bank, the card, and the books agree, the statements are ready to read. That agreement is the whole of what we sign our name to, and it is not an opinion on the statements.