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Texas has two ranked lists so far: Sugar Land, with 18 listed firms, and the Houston area, with 29. Start with the one nearest you. No Texas firm shows a verified CPA license, because the state board blocks automated lookups, so check any license yourself on the board's free search.
1 profile reviewed, 1 met the listing bar, 1 scored (evidence coverage of 70% or more).
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Sugar Land bookkeeping firms ranked by what they document and what a registry confirms: services, software, pricing approach and evidence coverage, with a source for every item.
Houston-area bookkeeping firms, from Conroe to League City and Katy, ranked on documented services, pricing transparency and registry checks. No star ratings.
Check a Texas bookkeeper before you hire: the Comptroller's franchise tax status search, the TSBPA license lookup, and the tax dates your books must meet.
{a} or {b}? A published starting price vs a custom proposal, plus payroll, report timing and software.
{a} and {b} both use CPA in their names; neither license is verified. How their monthly work, payroll and reporting differ.
Firms outside the market pages that met the listing bar. A town gets its own page once it has 8 listed firms.
| Firm | Where | Services documented | Software | Pricing | Credentials verified | Coverage | Evidence Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BookkeeperLive | Dallas, TX Remote | monthly bookkeeping, catch-up/cleanup, AP/AR, payroll coordination, month-end close | QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, FreshBooks, Intuit ProConnect, Intuit TurboTax, CCH Axcess, Drake Software, ADP | Publishes prices | Not verified | 85% | 57 |
Our Texas coverage starts in the Houston area. Sugar Land has its own page with 18 listed firms, and the Houston area has another with 29. Firms elsewhere in Texas that met the listing bar appear in the table below until their city has enough firms for a page of its own.
Business registrations come from the Texas Comptroller's public data on active franchise taxpayers, which gives each entity's status and the charter date the Secretary of State recorded. That's where the formation dates on Texas profiles come from. Sole proprietors don't file franchise tax, so a firm run under its owner's own name may show no registration. That isn't a mark against it.
The Texas State Board of Public Accountancy doesn't allow automated lookups of its register. Until that changes, no Texas firm here shows a verified CPA license, including firms that are CPA practices. If a firm's CPA license matters to your decision, look it up on the board's own license search. It takes a minute.
Texas firms that say they serve clients anywhere are still listed where their office is. If you'd rather work with a firm entirely online, the remote page covers national providers.
Dates are when we checked. Report an error.