Once your business is on its feet, there are lots of day-to-day tasks that we can help you with.

This includes everything from compliance with your tax obligations, book keeping to assistance with managing your properties and Human Resources advice. We are right by your side, no matter what you need from us.

Happy tax man: Let’s face it, spending time completing your tax return may not be the best use of your time! So spend your time serving your customers and let us take the pain out of meeting your tax obligations. Whether it’s your individual return or for your company, trust, estate or partnership, we can help:

  • prepare your financial statements
  • prepare your tax returns
  • prepare your RWT returns
  • prepare your GST returns

Who can help?

Down on the farm: Unless you have a particular affinity with the home office and your latest farm accounting package, we assume you would consider your time best spent out there tending to the stock, pasture or replacing the top rail of the yards that your new bull took out while eyeing up one of the heifers two paddocks across. Let us take care of the bookwork and ensure your accounts are compliant and fit for purpose.  We can:

  • prepare your farm financial statements
  • prepare your farm income tax return
  • prepare your farm RWT return
  • prepare your farm GST return
  • help with farm budgeting and forecasting

Who can help?

Don’t go off the rails: When it’s time to budget, it’s always good to have some guidance.  Working closely with you, we can help prepare a realistic budget and help you track it to boost profitability to your desired levels. Use our budgeting and forecasting services to build essential budgeting skills that will assist you with making sound business decisions and help you to understand the impact on your business when you have a big business decision to make.  So, whether you are a long standing business or a start-up, we can help with getting your business on track to a stronger financial future.

Who can help?

People, people, people: Doing the right thing and doing things right with the people who work for you will always be one of the biggest challenges for business owners.

He aha te mea nui o te ao
What is the most important thing in the world?
He tangata, he tangata, he tangata
It is the people, it is the people, it is the people

We hear a lot about being a ‘good employer’, but did you know that being a ‘good employee’ is an equal responsibility in law? We help you balance these two golden rules and develop a positive team and work ethic. Here are some of the ways we can help:

  • The good stuff: recruit the right people via great job adverts, selection criteria, interviewing techniques, reference checking and employment agreements, and retain the right people by having excellent management techniques, performance appraisals, organisational culture and effective communication
  • The hard stuff: when the fit isn’t quite right, create appropriate exit strategies, disciplinary procedures, performance improvement plans and help to manage grievances. Reorganise your people by restructuring, job redesign and re-deployment
  • The supportive stuff: re-train people, develop new managers, use coaching and mentoring, training and development

Who can help?

In the good books: Being a company, we know exactly how to take care of Companies Office filing obligations and maintenance of statutory records, so let us do it for you, and leave you to do what you do best, whether that’s serving flat whites, or being on the tools. We can minimise your risk and take the stress out of filing annual returns, registering an office facility, maintaining statutory books, notifying of change of directors, shareholders, addresses and office details, and share transfers. It couldn’t be easier to comply!

Who can help?

It’s no accident: Make sure you are paying the right amount of ACC. We can review your ACC, check to ensure you are in the right classification rate and help ensure all legislation changes are dealt with on your behalf

Who can help?

Don’t run out of money, honey: Cashflow is what keeps businesses operating to their full potential.  Knowing when you are going to need cash and how you are going to get it is a necessary part of any successful business.  We can help you prepare a cashflow forecast and use it to compare against your actual operating figures to help you plan for future capital expansion.  We also provide Cashflow Forecast Coaching to ensure you have the skills required to manage your cashflow

Who can help?

Location, location, location: When it comes to managing your Commercial Property, we have the local expertise you need. We can provide guidance on what and when to buy, help with leases and funding advice, provide tips on how to minimise tax, information on how best to structure the ownership and review how the return on investment is performing.  We offer a full range of property management services that include all the day-to-day issues that may arise with your tenants, including lease management, building WOF, maintenance and accounting.

  • Lease negotiations and renewals
  • Tenant liaison
  • Rent collection and reviews
  • Building and facilities maintenance
  • Insurance renewals and valuations
  • Recovery of operating expenses
  • Trade contractor management
  • Health and safety regulations

Who can help?

Live in the moment: The past can be a good indicator of the future; however, to ensure you are on the right track, regular management reporting will provide you with up-to-date information and indications of your business position and performance, so you can make timely decisions about your future. We can help with monthly or quarterly management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and KPIs

Who can help?

By the book: We have a whole team of accountants who can ensure your books are in tip-top shape. It is true there can be cost savings with DIY bookkeeping when it’s done competently, but the cost of “cooking” your own books can be significant. Doing it right the first time is the most effective and efficient option and that’s where we can help

  • Bookkeeping services
  • Bank reconciliations and coding
  • GST processing and filing
  • FBT/RWT returns

Who can help?

Decisions, decisions, decisions: Make sure you have the right structure and are doing the right thing. Through workshops and coaching sessions, we can help you achieve “good governance” practices and procedures.  We can provide formal governance training and coach your board to ensure they are working together and providing effective governance

Who can help?

I wanna hold your hand: We can provide support at board meetings by attending in an advisory capacity. We can help you understand what your stakeholders want and how to keep them happy

Who can help?

But it’s always done like that: Working with your key staff members, we can assist with documenting and reviewing your existing processes with a view to suggesting efficiency improvements. We work with both financial and non-financial systems to provide an independent review of your processes and help you conduct your own due diligence on new systems

Who can help?

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As business advisors and chartered accountants, we don’t just ‘do the numbers’ – we know what it takes to run a great business.  If you’re looking for exactly that, let’s have a conversation about what to do next.