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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.

09/03/2026

September 15 is a deadline. For most people seeing it in their feed, it is not their deadline.

If you already have an S-corp and you filed an extension, your 1120-S is due September 15.

If you are a sole proprietor on a Schedule C, September 15 does not apply to you. You cannot elect S-corp status for 2026 right now. What you can do is decide whether 2027 should look different.

Three things decide it:

Profit, not revenue. $300,000 in revenue with $290,000 in expenses changes nothing.

A reasonable salary. Paying yourself $12,000 and distributing $150,000 is how you get attention you do not want.

Savings that beat the cost. Payroll, a separate return, a franchise tax report, and clean books are real expenses. Save $1,500 and spend $2,500 and you went backwards.

One more thing most posts skip. Wages run through payroll reduce your qualified business income deduction, so the true savings are smaller than advertised.

S-corps are not a loophole. They are a tool, and sometimes the wrong one.

Send us your last full year of profit and how you are filing now, and we will tell you what an S-corp would actually save you or cost you.

Accounting Made Easy | Katy, TX

Hello, September.First cool morning in Katy and everybody suddenly wants pumpkin everything. I am not immune. But Septem...
09/01/2026

Hello, September.

First cool morning in Katy and everybody suddenly wants pumpkin everything. I am not immune. But September is also the month that quietly catches business owners, so here is what is actually on the calendar.

September 15 is a Tuesday, and two things land on it. If your S corp or partnership filed an extension back in March, that return is due. Not October. September. And the late filing penalty on a pass-through is charged per owner, per month, even in a year the company owes no tax at all. Two owners and a few months late turns into real money on a return that was almost finished.

Third quarter estimated tax is due the same day. Pass-through income has no withholding behind it, so nothing is being set aside for you. Interest starts the day after and it does not send a notice.

The two are connected, and that is the part most people miss. If your extended return is being finished the same week the Q3 payment is due, you are holding nearly final numbers for the year. Set the estimate on what actually happened through August instead of the guess you made in April. Either you stop overpaying the IRS to hold your cash, or you find out you are short while there is still a quarter left to fix it.

That is the difference between having your books done and having someone read them.

Clean books are where we start, because nothing works without them. But that is the starting line, not the finish. From there it is margin by service line, a cash forecast you can plan against, and a year end that does not surprise you in February.

Four months left in 2026. Still enough time to change how it ends.

Wendy Alewine, Accounting Made Easy

Bookkeeping, payroll, tax, and CFO advisory in Katy, TX
346-387-0323 | acctmadeeasy.com

Happy Monday, and happy almost new month.September is a good time to look at where your business actually stands instead...
08/31/2026

Happy Monday, and happy almost new month.

September is a good time to look at where your business actually stands instead of where you assumed it stands. Pull up your numbers this week and ask three questions.

1. Did I make money last month, or did I just move money around?

2. What is my cash going to look like in 30 days?

3. What one number do I want to change before year end?

Most owners are not behind because they are not working hard enough. They are behind because no one has shown them what the numbers are telling them.
Make this week count.

Booth is up and I am here all afternoon.Drop your business card in the bowl for a chance to win free 2026 tax prep. Come...
08/30/2026

Booth is up and I am here all afternoon.

Drop your business card in the bowl for a chance to win free 2026 tax prep. Come by, grab a pen, and ask me anything about your books. Most business owners walk away realizing they are profitable on paper but broke in the bank, and that gap is usually fixable.

Accounting Made Easy
acctmadeeasy.com | 346-387-0323

We are set up and ready. Booth M at the Quince Expo, NRG Center, until 5 today.If you are a vendor here, photography, ca...
08/30/2026

We are set up and ready. Booth M at the Quince Expo, NRG Center, until 5 today.

If you are a vendor here, photography, catering, music, venues, dresses, planning, come by. I am giving away free 2026 tax prep to one business owner today. Drop your card in the bowl.

And if you want a straight look at your numbers, ask about the free 30 minute profit check. No pitch. Just an honest read on where things stand.

Booth M. Come say hello.

Most contractors I talk to are marking up 30 percent and think they are making a 30 percent margin.They are making 23 pe...
08/26/2026

Most contractors I talk to are marking up 30 percent and think they are making a 30 percent margin.

They are making 23 percent.

Markup is measured against your cost. Margin is measured against your price. Same dollars, two different denominators, and that gap adds up over a year of jobs.

I put together a free two page reference that lays it out. The margin to markup conversion table, how to calculate labor burden, how to spread overhead across billable hours, and a worked example that takes a $25 an hour tech to a real breakeven rate of $78.92.

Message me and I will send it over. No cost.

Accounting Made Easy will be exhibiting at the Live Small Business Expo in Houston on December 2, 2026.We work with owne...
08/24/2026

Accounting Made Easy will be exhibiting at the Live Small Business Expo in Houston on December 2, 2026.

We work with owners of small and mid sized businesses on the four things that decide whether a company grows or stalls: clean books, correct payroll, a tax position built on strategy rather than deadlines, and CFO level guidance on pricing, margin, and cash flow.

If you are running a business and cannot say with confidence where your profit is going, that is the conversation we are coming to have.

Houston business owners, save the date. I look forward to meeting you.

Accounting Made Easy
acctmadeeasy.com | 346-387-0323

Happening right now at Camp Flewellen. Belle’s Buds Rescue is here until 11 this morning and I am volunteering with them...
08/22/2026

Happening right now at Camp Flewellen. Belle’s Buds Rescue is here until 11 this morning and I am volunteering with them.
These pups are sweet, social, and ready for a home. If you have been thinking about adopting, come meet them. If adopting is not in the cards right now, a donation goes straight to food and vet care. Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, and PayPal are all set up at the table, and checks are welcome too.
Camp Flewellen, until 11. Come say hello. ❤️🐾

Belle’s Buds Rescue

Spent this afternoon at Network In Action here in Katy, listening to Dennis To speak on entity structure and tax plannin...
08/19/2026

Spent this afternoon at Network In Action here in Katy, listening to Dennis To speak on entity structure and tax planning.

Good session, and it left me thinking about something I run into constantly.

Owners come out of talks like this with a number in their head. Above X, switch to a C corp. Below X, stay an S corp.

There is no such number.

Entity choice depends on how much profit you pull out versus leave in the business, what you pay yourself in W-2 wages, whether you are in a service industry, your state, and what you plan to do with the company in five years. Two businesses with identical revenue can land on opposite answers.

That does not make the talk wrong. It makes it a starting point. The strategies are real, but which ones apply to you is a question nobody can answer from a stage.

If you heard something today that made you wonder whether your structure still fits, that is the right instinct. Bring it to someone who has looked at your actual return.

Good group. Glad I went.

I’m Wendy Alewine, and I spent over 20 years in accounting before I built Accounting Made Easy.Bookkeeping first. Then c...
08/17/2026

I’m Wendy Alewine, and I spent over 20 years in accounting before I built Accounting Made Easy.

Bookkeeping first. Then controller. Then CFO.

Which means I’ve sat on both sides of the work. I’ve been the person entering the transactions, and I’ve been the person in the room deciding what those numbers meant and what the business should do about it.

Most small businesses have someone doing the first job. Almost none of them have anyone doing the second.

That’s the gap I built this firm to fill.

CFO-level financial guidance, priced for businesses that aren’t the size of the ones I used to work for.

Katy based, serving business owners across Texas. If your books are getting done but nobody is telling you what they mean, we should talk.

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