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Hire us to name wages, the other cash, and basis. Do not hire us to print a split or to sign an audit.
A poor fit, said early.
This practice is a poor fit if you want a percentage of profit printed as the wage. We will not print it. Asking again in the form will not produce it. The refusal is the offer. If that is the only thing you came for, another source will serve you faster, and we would rather say so before you book a time.
This practice is a poor fit if the thing you need is a signature on an audit, a review, or a compilation. A firm allowed to put that signature on the report is the right place. Books underneath the report can still be kept here. The signature cannot.
This practice is a poor fit if you want us to run payday. We set payroll up. The provider you choose runs it. If you want a shop that issues the checks, you want that provider, and we can still set the wage that the provider pays.
A good fit.
A good fit is an owner who takes cash from the company and wants the cash to have a true name. Wages for the work. Other cash only as far as basis allows. A loan only with a note, interest, and a payback. What the owner wants is a kept set of books, a month that has stopped moving, and a return built from that month.
A good fit includes a notice. The notice asks about the wage. We answer from duties, time, training, and comparables, and we do it without a sample file on the table. A good fit includes a prior year of sloppy labels. We reclass what the facts support and we say what a prior return already claimed.
A good fit can be a shop, a studio, or a company that sells a service from a spare room. The trade does not matter. The three names do. We work by video, by shared books, and by a calendar. The owner does not need to sit near us.
Boundaries we say on the first call.
Talking, even at length, does not start the paid work. The calendar only tests the fit. Hiring begins after a written letter lists the job and the price and both sides sign it. Until then, your figures stay off these pages and off the form.
An invented shape is not your company. The shapes on the shapes page exist so the names can be seen without borrowing a client. When your facts differ, your facts win.
The questions we hear most are on the questions page. The screen we use when we look together is on reading the lines together.
Ask whether this fits.
Say what you want. A ratio request will get a no.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.