Somebody has gone and the dates on the wall did not leave with them. You want those weeks covered and you want to know when it ends, because cover without an end date turns into a hire nobody decided to make.
Interim work drifts. It starts as six weeks of cover and becomes a standing invoice that nobody ever chose. Writing the last day down before anybody starts is what stops that.
It also makes the middle weeks useful, because everyone can see what they are for. Cover is a different job from a hire and it should feel like one.
The close during the gap, a lender moment that happens to land inside it, payday that still has to run, and October if the gap happens to swallow it.
The strip below is the gap with the last day written on it and no wages filled in, because those are yours.
The limit on what can be covered sits in the short section underneath, since one kind of work does not move just because a chair is empty.
A chair is a job, and the job has a shape worth naming before somebody sits in it. 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. Businesses don't hire a CPA. They hire a CFO.
Breadth is why one person can hold the gap at all, since the close, the filings and the return are already one desk's work rather than three handovers. Height is the part a temp bookkeeper cannot cover, which is the decisions that arrive whether or not the chair is filled.
Covering empty weeks is ordinary work, and a temporary chair does not come with a CPA credential. This desk has none. A firm that holds one still signs audits, reviews and assurance opinions, even in the middle of a gap, and if one falls inside your weeks you will hear that on the first call while the ordinary weeks carry on closing. Every part of that is set out on the disclosures page.
Source. Texas Occupations Code, sections 901.451 and 901.456, with 901.453 on reports expressing assurance. Read 29 September 2026.
Bring the dates on the wall and the day the chair emptied. You will leave with a last day, a list of what falls inside the weeks, and a straight answer about whether this needs cover at all.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice. A sentence about the gap span is enough to start.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.