How a page about this city gets made
A page starts from the work itself. Closing a month, setting up payday, reading a lender sentence, preparing a return from closed books. The Texas parts start from the Comptroller and from the statute, not from a memory of what the rate was in some other city. The Bivins house in Amarillo is red brick and a round porch. The house marks a place. The promise on this page is the work, written in sentences.
Software helps the draft. A person in the practice reviews it before it is the page you are reading. If you spot a wrong date, a wrong rate, or a sentence that overreaches, call the phone number in the footer and name the page. We correct the page itself. We do not tuck the repair into a corner and hope you miss it.
What we will not invent
No client story with the name rubbed off. No balance that belongs to a real company. No market figure without the publisher who printed it. The layouts you see are empty structure, so you can tell what a month contains. Filling one in still takes the bank, the payroll, and a talk about what those numbers should do next.
The sales-tax figure used on this site is the city total of 8.25 percent, state plus city, with no county sales tax in Potter County or Randall County. If a page ever stated a different rate, that page would be wrong and we would take it down. The rendition date and the franchise date are the state's dates, 15 April and 15 May, with the written rendition extension to 15 May. Those are not our invention either.
A correction has a footprint
When a sentence changes because it was wrong, the change shows on the page. We do not keep a second, quieter version for people who already read the first one and hope they never return. Call, and the person who answers can see the same page you see.
Examples stay examples. If we ever had permission to show a real result, the page would say the client agreed in writing and the identifying detail was removed. That permission is not on this site today. Do not read a hypothetical as someone's year.
What this practice does not sign
Audit, review, and compilation are reports that need a license this practice does not hold. We are not a CPA. If the page in your hand is one of those three, that fact is named on the first call, and you are pointed toward a firm allowed to sign.
Payday is set up here and run by the provider you choose. We do not calculate the checks, we do not move the money, and we do not file as the payday company. If the state writes and lists the pages it wants, you receive copies from months that already agree with the bank, not a story rebuilt the night before the visit. The meeting with an examiner, if one is called, is a meeting you attend.
What stays in this practice, with no license on the wall, is your return, the management conversations through the year, and statements that do not attach an assurance opinion. An audit, a review, or a compilation still needs a signature from a firm that holds the license, and that signature is not ours. Open statutes.capitol.texas.gov when you want the state's wording, and read 901.451 before you read 901.453 or 901.456, because that order is what separates a signed assurance report from the return we can prepare without a license.
The name on this site carries the word Alternative because the reserved words are CPA, accountant, and accounting firm. The work you came for is still the books, the monthly close, payday setup, the statements, and the return. Only the signed assurance report goes somewhere else.
One practical limit sits in the open. A year that is behind gets caught up as its own job, with a finish line you can see, before anyone calls the work a monthly habit. If that catch-up cannot be done, we decline before a signature. That decline is said in the first conversation, while the year can still be planned.
Why the limit is on this page and not in the header
You came for the books, the close, payday setup, the statements, and the return. Putting a disclaimer over every paragraph trains a reader to skip it. The limit is here, once, in sentences that also name the reports. The rest of the site talks about the work you can actually hire.
If a salesperson, including us, ever sounds as if the limit moved, this page wins. Ask us to read it back on the call.
