IMAAR Associates provides bookkeeping services in Dallas, TX for companies relocating headquarters or regional operations into DFW and for multi-unit franchise groups that need per-location reporting done right. Your books are handled by a dedicated bookkeeping team and reviewed by a US-licensed CPA — delivered remotely, the same way we serve businesses across the country, at offshore pricing instead of a Dallas hourly rate.
Dallas-Fort Worth has spent the last decade as one of the country's top destinations for corporate headquarters relocations, and it's long been a hub for franchise brands headquartered here or expanding fast through the metro. Both kinds of businesses hit the same bookkeeping wall at a different scale than a single-location small business: they need books that roll up cleanly across multiple entities, locations, or cost centers, not just one operating account.
A company relocating a headquarters or regional office to Dallas usually needs its books rebuilt or re-mapped cleanly on day one — new bank accounts, a new chart of accounts aligned to how leadership actually wants to see the business, and historical data carried over accurately. A multi-unit franchise operator needs something different: a separate profit & loss per location rolled up into a consolidated view, royalty and franchise-fee obligations tracked and reconciled every month, and cost centers that don't blur together the way they can in a single QuickBooks file set up for one location. We build the chart of accounts and class/location tracking around whichever of those two pictures actually describes your business.
Each unit or location gets its own profit & loss, rolled up into one consolidated view for ownership or leadership.
Royalty percentages and franchise fees tracked and reconciled monthly, matching what your franchisor and lenders expect to see.
Clean re-mapping of your chart of accounts and historical data as you stand up Texas operations, so nothing gets lost in the move.
Texas has no state income tax, on individuals or on pass-through business income, which is exactly the kind of figure that shows up in a spreadsheet when a company is deciding whether to relocate a headquarters or open its next franchise location in Dallas versus a higher-tax state. For businesses actively modeling total cost of operating — payroll load, owner and executive compensation, franchisee take-home economics — the absence of a state income tax layer is a genuine, quantifiable advantage over states like California or New York, not a marketing line.
It's not the whole picture, though: Texas still applies an entity-level franchise (margin) tax above a revenue threshold, and property and sales tax rates matter in any relocation or expansion model too. Getting an accurate answer on total operating cost — and on what a new Dallas location or headquarters will actually cost to run once it's open — depends on having clean, comparable books from day one, not estimates built on the old state's numbers.
We don't have a physical office in Dallas, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. What we offer instead is a dedicated bookkeeping team supported by a US-licensed CPA reviewer, delivered securely through the QuickBooks Online or Xero account you already use — the same setup whether you're a single relocating headquarters or a ten-unit franchise group spread across the metro. Skipping the downtown-office overhead is a large part of how we keep pricing flat and predictable across every location, instead of billing an hourly rate that scales up as you add units. It's how we keep bookkeeping in Dallas, TX consistent and cost-predictable as you scale from one location to many.
Pricing is based on transaction volume, number of locations or entities, and whether catch-up work is needed first — never an open-ended hourly rate. Get a custom quote after a short call about your current setup.
Bookkeeping tailored to Dallas's relocation and franchise mix is the foundation — these related pages go deeper on specific needs:
No — we don't operate a physical office in Dallas or elsewhere in Texas, and we're upfront about that. Your books are handled by a dedicated bookkeeping team and reviewed by a US-licensed CPA, delivered remotely through the QuickBooks Online or Xero account you already use. Not carrying a Dallas office is exactly why we can offer flat monthly pricing instead of a local hourly rate.
Yes, and it's a common question from companies relocating to DFW. We can set up clean monthly books quickly on your existing accounting platform so you have accurate, comparable numbers for evaluating total cost of operating in Texas — payroll, entity structure, and no state income tax all factor in — versus where you're moving from. Get a custom quote based on your entity structure and current books.
Yes. We set up class or location tracking inside QuickBooks Online or Xero so you get a separate profit & loss per unit alongside a consolidated view, with royalty and franchise-fee obligations tracked and reconciled monthly — the reporting most franchise agreements and lenders expect, without you having to build it manually in a spreadsheet.
