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Accounting Made Easy provides bookkeeping, payroll, tax support, and CFO advisory services for business owners who want clean books, financial clarity, and year-round guidance. Our office is based out of Katy, TX, but we serve the greater Houston area. We offer a broad range of services for business owners, executives and independent professionals. We are experienced and we're friendly. Please call us for a free initial consultation.

Where is your money going?Most business owners don't have one big money problem. They have several small leaks running a...
10/08/2026

Where is your money going?

Most business owners don't have one big money problem. They have several small leaks running at the same time. A price that hasn't kept up with costs. A subscription nobody uses. An invoice that never went out.

On Tuesday, October 20, I'll be the featured speaker at NIA Professionals Katy Crowd Coach Live, hosted by Helen and Oscar Maldonado.

Topic: 5 Profit Leaks to Fix Before December 31

You'll learn:
1. How to tell if your prices have fallen behind your costs
2. Where recurring charges quietly drain your cash
3. How to get paid faster for work you've already done
4. How to spot labor costs that aren't paying for themselves
5. The year-end tax decisions that have to happen before December 31

We'll also cover when it makes sense to set up or change your business entity, and when to bring an attorney into that conversation.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026
4:00 to 6:00 pm
Adriatic Cafe Italian Grill
27240 Katy Fwy, Katy, TX 77494

Business owners from every industry are welcome. Comment INTERESTED or send me a message and I'll get you the details to attend.

If you filed an extension for your 2025 tax return, your deadline is Thursday, October 15. That is 8 days away.An extens...
10/07/2026

If you filed an extension for your 2025 tax return, your deadline is Thursday, October 15. That is 8 days away.

An extension gave you more time to file, not more time to pay. Any balance due has been building interest and penalties since April 15, so filing now limits the damage. Missing October 15 can add a failure-to-file penalty on top of that.

Here is how we handle it:

1. You send your documents through our secure portal
2. We prepare and review your return
3. We e-file it before the deadline

Appointments are limited this close to the deadline. Call or text 346-387-0323 or book at acctmadeeasy.com.

Business owners, are you keeping as much of your revenue as you should be?On Tuesday, October 20, Wendy Alewine of Accou...
10/05/2026

Business owners, are you keeping as much of your revenue as you should be?

On Tuesday, October 20, Wendy Alewine of Accounting Made Easy is speaking at NIA Professionals Katy Crowd Coach Live on Where Is Your Money Going? 5 Profit Leaks to Fix Before December 31.

Here's one to check now. Compare your current pricing to what your costs were a year ago. If materials, labor, or software went up and your prices stayed the same, that gap is coming straight out of your profit.

Join us to learn the other four and what you can still fix before year end.

Tuesday, October 20, 4 to 6 pm
Adriatic Cafe Italian Grill, 27240 Katy Fwy, Katy, TX 77494

Limited seating. Reserve your spot:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1979479289842?aff=oddtdtcreator

Calling someone a 1099 does not make them one.This is the most expensive classification mistake I see, and it is most co...
10/05/2026

Calling someone a 1099 does not make them one.

This is the most expensive classification mistake I see, and it is most common in construction, home services, trades, and anywhere a business grew fast and needed help quickly.

The reasoning usually sounds fine at the time. They set their own schedule. They asked to be 1099. We both signed an agreement.

None of that settles it. A signed agreement does not control the analysis, and Texas is explicit that even if you and the worker both agree, you cannot classify an employee as an independent contractor.

What matters is control. Who decides when the work happens, how it gets done, in what order, and to what standard. Who supplies the tools and covers the costs. Whether the person can actually make or lose money on the job.

Here is the part almost nobody knows. It is the right to control that counts, not whether you use it. If you could direct how the work gets done, the fact that you choose not to does not make someone a contractor.

More than one agency looks at this, and they do not use the same analysis. The IRS has its test, the Department of Labor has another, and the Texas Workforce Commission runs its own 20 factor review. The same worker can come out differently depending on who is asking.

And the cost lands on the business. Back payroll taxes, penalties, and interest. The worker is not the one who pays.

If you have people you treat as contractors and you are not certain, that is worth a real conversation before someone else raises it for you.

Accounting Made Easy | Katy, TX
346-387-0323

Filing late costs ten times more than paying late. Most people do not know these are two separate penalties.Extended ind...
10/02/2026

Filing late costs ten times more than paying late. Most people do not know these are two separate penalties.

Extended individual returns are due October 15.

Here is what almost nobody realizes until it happens to them.

The failure to file penalty runs at 5 percent of the unpaid tax per month, capped at 25 percent.

The failure to pay penalty runs at 0.5 percent of the unpaid tax per month, also capped at 25 percent.

Same cap, ten times the monthly rate. One is a serious problem. The other is a line item.

So the instinct most owners have is backwards. When they cannot pay, they go quiet and do not file, because filing feels like announcing the problem. That choice turns a manageable penalty into the expensive one.

What to do instead. File the return on October 15 whether or not you can pay a dollar of it. That removes the large penalty entirely. Then deal with the balance separately. The IRS has installment arrangements, and a balance under arrangement is a very different situation than a balance nobody filed for.

Two things to keep in mind. Interest runs on the unpaid balance separately from either penalty, and it has been running since the original spring due date. The extension extended your time to file, never your time to pay. And if both penalties apply in the same month, the filing penalty is reduced by the payment penalty for that month, so the gap narrows slightly. It is still the one you want to avoid.

The worst outcome here is not owing money. It is owing money and saying nothing.

If you have an extended return still sitting unfiled, you have until October 15. Message me and I will tell you honestly whether it is still doable.

Accounting Made Easy | Katy, TX
346-387-0323

Reasonable compensation is not a number you pick in April.Day one of Q4. Ninety two days left in the year.If you elected...
10/01/2026

Reasonable compensation is not a number you pick in April.

Day one of Q4. Ninety two days left in the year.

If you elected S corp status, the IRS expects the owner working in the business to be paid W-2 wages before taking distributions. Not draws. Not transfers to your personal account. Payroll, with withholding and filings.

Here is where owners get into trouble.

They take zero salary all year because cash was tight, then at tax time someone tells them they need a reasonable salary on the books. But payroll is a real time activity. The wages had to actually run, the withholding had to be remitted, and the filings had to be made. You cannot reconstruct a year of payroll in March.

What makes a number defensible is not a percentage someone mentioned at a networking lunch. There is no formula in the law. It comes down to what the work is worth: your role, your hours, your responsibilities, and what you would pay someone else to do the same job in the same market.

Then document it. Write down the reasoning, keep the comparables, and file it with your year end records. The number matters less than being able to show how you got there.

If you are an S corp and owner payroll is not running right now, that is the thing to fix before December 31.

Which is it for you: on payroll, distributions only, or not sure? Comment and I will tell you what to look at.

Accounting Made Easy | Katy, TX
346-387-0323

Q3 closes Wednesday.Most owners will not look at the quarter until their accountant sends something in a few weeks. By t...
09/28/2026

Q3 closes Wednesday.

Most owners will not look at the quarter until their accountant sends something in a few weeks. By then it is history and you are just reading it.

Four things worth doing this week while the quarter is still open:

Chase what is outstanding. Anything sitting past 30 days should get a call, not another emailed invoice. Collections you make this week land in Q3.

Check your estimated tax position. If income ran ahead of what you projected in the spring, the number you have been paying may not be the number you owe.

Look at Q3 against Q2. Not just revenue. Margin. If you did more work for less profit, that is the thing to catch now, not in January.

Decide what Q4 needs to deliver. You have one quarter left to change how 2026 ends.

A closed quarter should tell you what to do next, not just what already happened.

What is the one thing you want Q4 to fix? Comment it below.

Accounting Made Easy | Katy, TX
346-387-0323

Ever check your bank balance to decide how the business is doing?I gave a client unusual homework last week. Stop lookin...
09/24/2026

Ever check your bank balance to decide how the business is doing?

I gave a client unusual homework last week. Stop looking at your bank balance for two weeks.

Not because the balance does not matter. Because it was the only number he was looking at, and it was lying to him in both directions.

On the days it looked good, he relaxed. What he could not see was the bills sitting in the drawer and payroll coming Friday. On the days it looked bad, he panicked and delayed a hire he actually needed. What he could not see was the invoices due to land the following week.

The balance tells you what already happened. It tells you nothing about what is coming.

So his homework was two different numbers instead. What is owed to him and when it should arrive. What he owes and when it is due. Four weeks out, on one page.

Two weeks later he told me it was the first time in three years he had stopped feeling like the business was happening to him.

Your bank balance is a snapshot. Your business is a movie.

What is the one number you check most often? Comment it and I will tell you what it is actually telling you.

Accounting Made Easy | Katy, TX
346-387-0323

🍂 Happy first day of fall.That also means there are 100 days left in 2026, and Q4 starts in nine.This is the window whe...
09/22/2026

🍂 Happy first day of fall.

That also means there are 100 days left in 2026, and Q4 starts in nine.

This is the window where year end planning still changes the outcome. After December 31, most of your options are gone and you are just reporting what already happened.

Four things worth doing before the year closes:

1. Review your year to date numbers so you know where you actually stand.
2. Plan taxes now. Most moves that lower a tax bill have to happen inside the year.
3. Clean up the books so year end is not a scramble in March.
4. Build your 2027 budget and walk into January with a plan.

Which of the four is furthest behind for you? Drop the number in the comments.

Accounting Made Easy | Katy, TX
346-387-0323

Three numbers every owner should know cold.1. Gross margin by service or product line. Not overall. A blended average ca...
09/18/2026

Three numbers every owner should know cold.

1. Gross margin by service or product line. Not overall. A blended average can hide a line that is losing money while your strong lines quietly cover for it.

2. Break even revenue for the month. The number where the lights stay on.

3. Cash on hand in weeks, not dollars. Dollars feel abstract. Weeks tell you how much runway you actually have.

If any of those took you more than a minute to answer, that is the gap worth closing first.

Which of the three is hardest for you to pull up right now? Drop a 1, 2, or 3 in the comments.

Accounting Made Easy | Katy, TX
346-387-0323

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