What we want you to take away
That a start is a date rather than a description, and that you're allowed to ask for the date before you hear about anything else.
If reading that made you pick a month and ask three providers to commit to it, the page has done its job and you owe nothing for it.
Who is at the far end of the rail
Steven Palmieri, sitting in Dallas, Texas. The footer number reaches him without passing through anybody, and this page was set down on 29 September 2026.
Help, including when the answer is elsewhere
Some people arrive here wanting to start a practice of their own rather than hire one, and they get pointed at the short page instead of sold to. If a bank has asked for statements with a signature on them, the state board's own list of firms is the whole of the next step.
A start date is not a license
Dating the first close is ordinary work and the person on this rail holds no CPA license. Audits, reviews, compilations and reports that give assurance on your statements stay with a firm that holds one.
Payroll can be prepared here and is run by you on a provider you own. This desk doesn't stand in for you in an examination. The rest of the wording is on the disclosures page.
Source. Texas Occupations Code sections 901.451, 901.453 and 901.456, the rules behind that limit, read 29 September 2026 while dating a first close.
Say whether you want a start, or you were opening a firm
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.