CPA New Braunfels Alternative.Questions owners actually ask.

Can the month still be open.

Yes. An open month gets closed before anyone sketches the rest of the year. Sketching the rest of the year on top of an open month would be a guess, and you would hear that. An open month is not a character flaw. It is a pile with a date on it.

Who runs payday.

Payday runs through the provider already on the account. We set up the registrations and the way wages land in the books. After setup, the pay run stays outside this practice. If you do not have a provider yet, we will talk about what setup requires. This practice will not turn into the company that runs payday.

Who prepares the return.

The practice that splits a festival batch can also prepare the return that follows it. Nothing about the return has to be settled while you are still reading about the two counties. If the months are not ready, the return waits. We would rather file late on purpose, with a plan, than file early on a fog.

A lender asking for a signature.

The first call is where that signature gets named, and where it gets pointed outside. When the request is an audit, a review, or a compilation, the signature has to be someone else's, and the books can still be put in order here. Everything else we do can still sit beside that request. The limit is about the signature, not about whether your books can be cleaned up.

Which county is mine.

The address decides. Comal County and Guadalupe County both sit under parts of the city. Each adds 0.5 percent. The city adds 1.5 percent either way. If you are not sure, bring the address and we will read it with you. Do not guess from the zip code and hope.

What about a hotel month with no guests.

File it. The city still wants the return on the 20th when the month was quiet. A zero is a filing. Silence becomes a fee, and the fee grows as the days pass. A filed zero is dull. A missing hotel month becomes a letter, and the letter is worse.

Do you come to town.

No. We meet on a video call. The books are shared. The close lands on the day you pick. You do not need a lobby here for the work to be real, and we will not pretend we keep one.

Friday night at the stadium.

Unicorn Stadium opened in 1927, holds a crowd, and still fills for football and soccer. Texans know what a Friday night under those lights feels like, the noise and the pride, even if the stadium is not in our own neighborhood. We share that. We also notice the gate receipts and the vendor batch, and we want them in the night they were earned, not in the following week when someone finally opened the envelope.

That is the pattern on every page here. The place is real. The work turns back to the month. A question that is missing from this list can still come in on the form. A short call is often enough to know whether we are the right practice.

What should I bring.

The last month you trust, access to the bank, and the question that made you call. When a notice is what made you call, that notice is the thing to have in hand. If the county is the reason, the address is enough. You do not need a speech and you do not need the year organized.

What about estimates.

Estimates wait until the months under them are real. If those months are open, an estimate would be a guess, and we will say so. When the months are closed, October can be a conversation about what is still open to decide before December. That conversation is more useful than a number pulled from a hope.

What about the spring list of equipment.

Each spring the appraisal district asks for a list of business property. That list is the rendition. April 15 is the usual day. A written note to Comal Appraisal District can move rendition from 15 April to 15 May. We ask which district has the address before the list goes out, because this city sits in more than one. The school rate is a different letter. They share a season. They do not share a form.

Will you say if this is the wrong practice.

Yes. If what you need is a signed audit, review, or compilation, we say that on the first call and we say the request has to go elsewhere. If what you need is the books closed and the return written, you are in the right conversation. A no is a complete answer, and you will hear it before anyone talks about a fee.

How fast can a month close.

It depends on how many months are open and whether the bank and the file can be read side by side. We do not print a number of days, because a printed number would be a guess about your file. On the call we will say what we can see and what is in the way. Sometimes the way is one missing statement. Sometimes it is a summer of batches that were never split. Either way you will know before you agree to anything.