Dallas, Texas

When the firm you pictured has to sign a report, and when the rail is enough.

Two lists. One of them is reserved. The other is the rail.

Where the rail stops

The reserved work is not a row on this picture. The pointer is the next section.

The first thirty days
Every line in this table belongs to the same group: Other filings.
Other filings
Day 1The call, and the month you want closed
Day 2An invite into the file you already pay for
Day 12One operating account agreed to the bank
enoughThe following tenthThe first page you are allowed to trust
A picture of a start. The days are not a measured average, and no client date is filled in.
CFOThe CFO seat a company actually recruits
ControllerThe close, the filings, and the first trusted tenth
Accountants, and the reserved workThe work the law reserves to a CPA
A Tax CFO is the CPA alternative for owners who need the books, the return and the plan from one desk. Businesses don't hire a CPA. They hire a CFO. Said here as staffing.
See the first thirty days dated

The short list

An audit. A review. A compilation. An examination of prospective financials. Agreed upon procedures. Any writeup that assures the financial statements. If a bank wants one of those, this rail is the wrong tool. The Texas State Board of Public Accountancy lookup is the next step, said without a sneer.

The long list, which has a page here

The first trusted tenth. The return from those months. The year still open. Payday setup, handed back. The Texas 20th. The person and the backup. The seat after that first tenth.

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.

Which list you are on

A Tax CFO is the controller and CFO seat for an owner-run business with the tax work inside it, so the books, the return and the plan come from one desk and the October number is decided before the year ends.

Breadth is the long list from one desk. Height is the drawing, which shows where a CFO sits and where the reserved work sits under that.

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Tell us which list you are actually on

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