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TMSE Inner Circle
For clients, partners & associates across our community
April 2026 Update
Overview
What Is TMSE?
T.M. Smith Enterprise is the umbrella that holds together everything many of you have worked with us on over the years. Accounting, CFO advising, financing, Tribe learning, and community projects like the Route 66 Joplin Experience all live here.
It reflects the relationships we've built, the businesses we support, and the projects we're growing alongside you.
If you're reading this, you're part of the Inner Circle. We're glad you're here.
Accounting
CFO Advising
3T Finance
Tribe
Community
Letter From the Desk
A Note From Tab
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Hey friend,
April was a full one!!! Tax deadlines on one side of the desk, the Triple Legacy Festival on the other. Somewhere in the middle, all of you. Thank you for trusting us with the work, the timing, and the messy parts.
Now we get to exhale. May is for follow-through, planning conversations, and finally pausing long enough to enjoy the spring. I'm grateful you're in this circle with us!!!
What We're Seeing
Across the Inner Circle
Themes showing up in conversations this month:
Owners catching their breath after a heavy Q1
More appetite for real Q2 planning, not reaction
Cleaner books leading to better questions
A renewed pull toward community and connection
If any of that sounds like you, we're tracking it too.
Client Update
Tax & Accounting
With the April deadline behind us, our focus shifts to:
- Wrapping up extensions and amendments
- Starting Q2 planning conversations
- Reviewing 2025 lessons to sharpen 2026 strategy
- Reconnecting on the items we tabled during the rush
Quick reminder: If something shifted during tax season, equipment, ownership, a new revenue stream, a profit swing, or you owed more than expected this year, this is the right month to flag it. A surprise tax bill almost always traces back to a change that didn't get captured in real time. Catching it now beats catching it in October.
Client Update
Payroll
Heading into late spring we're focused on:
- Mid-year compensation reviews
- Summer staffing patterns and seasonal scaling
- State and federal compliance updates rolling out for Q2
- Helping clients tighten payroll structure before raises hit
Pattern we keep seeing: The clients who run regular payroll evaluations, not once a year, but on a real cadence, are the ones who never get caught off guard. We talked about this in Business Office Hours. Quarterly check-ins, half the headaches.
Funding Conversations
Conversations on our desk right now:
- Equipment financing for Q2 and Q3 projects
- Working capital lines for clients planning summer growth
- Refinance reviews on loans signed in higher-rate windows
- Carefully structured expansion plays
If borrowing is on your radar this year, run it by us first. Happy to pressure-test the numbers before anything gets signed.
Friends don't let friends sign loan terms they regret later.
Inside the Tribe
TSAT Tribe & Community Learning
Tell 'Em Tab Business Office Hours keeps rolling, covering all things small business: cash flow, payroll, planning, financing, and the messy real-world questions in between. Recordings live in the Tribe, and a Q2 reset session is queued for late May.
Whether you join us live, listen later, or just read these monthly notes, you're already part of the conversation.
Monthly Thought
Tab's Thought of the Month
The most powerful thing a business owner can do after a hard season is not push harder. It's notice who showed up, and say thank you.
β Tabitha Smith, CFO & Founder, TSAT
Gratitude is a strategy.
Route 66 Joplin Experience
The Festival Happened
April 30 through May 2, three legacies converged on Broadway and Langston Hughes Boulevard. The Route 66 centennial, the 50th anniversary of Langston Hughes Boulevard, and the grand opening of the Route 66 Joplin Experience all in one weekend.
- Ribbon cutting on the Route 66 Joplin Experience Museum
- Nonprofit launch making it all official
- Live musicians throughout the weekend
- Great connections across the community
- Amazing food up and down the boulevard
- Community contributions pouring in for the museum
Thank you to every client and partner in this circle who showed up, sponsored, shared, or sent a kind word. It happened because of you. See the photos β
A Quick Note
Doors Open, Anytime
If something is sitting on your mind, business or personal, this is your reminder that you don't have to wait for a scheduled call to bring it up. A quick message, a question, a "can we talk this through," all welcome. We'd rather hear it early than untangle it later.
You're in the circle. Use it.
Heads Up
Dates to Remember
May 15
Nonprofit return deadline (Form 990)
Jun 15
Q2 estimated taxes due
Late May
Tribe Q2 reset session
Ongoing
Biweekly Office Hours, back on schedule
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"Some months you build the runway. April was one of those months, and you helped lay it. Whatever you're carrying into May, know that we're in your corner."
β Tab & the TSAT Team
