Monthly Bookkeeping Service

Each month we reconcile your bank, credit card and loan accounts, code transactions to the correct accounts and GST treatment, manage accounts payable and receivable, process payroll and superannuation where you engage us for it, and deliver a short month-end report — profit and loss, cash position and an owner-ready summary. The file is kept reconciled so the quarterly BAS and the year-end return are a continuation of clean work rather than a clean-up exercise.

Yes, where you engage us for it. We can run the regular pay cycle in Xero or MYOB, lodge Single Touch Payroll, reconcile superannuation each period and prepare it for payment through the clearing house. Some clients run payroll in-house and ask us only to reconcile it month to month. We confirm the scope in the engagement so the responsibilities are clear.

Both. Most of our bookkeeping clients run on Xero and many trades and service businesses prefer it, but we are comfortable in MYOB where that is your existing platform. We do not require you to switch. If you are moving to Xero or starting fresh, we can scope the setup and migration as a separate piece of work before the monthly cycle begins.

Yes. Catch-up bookkeeping is a common starting point. We begin with a file health check, rebuild or reconcile the backlog from bank statements and source documents, and bring the accounts to a reconciled position before the monthly cycle takes over. Catch-up work is scoped and quoted separately from the recurring fee so you can see exactly what the backlog costs versus the ongoing service.

Monthly bookkeeping keeps the file reconciled every month, which suits businesses with payroll, regular invoicing, or owners who want a current read on profit and cash. Quarterly bookkeeping reconciles in step with the BAS cycle and generally suits lower-volume businesses with simpler affairs. The right cadence depends on transaction volume, whether you employ staff, and how often you make decisions off the numbers. We recommend a cadence at the scoping stage.

A fixed monthly fee, scoped to your situation and quoted in writing. The scope reflects transaction volume across your accounts and payroll headcount where payroll is included. We quote after a short scoping call and the fee is held for the engagement period, so there are no surprise hourly bills. Catch-up or one-off work is quoted separately.

It helps considerably. Lenders assessing self-employed applicants generally want lodged tax returns, financial statements and often current interim figures. When the books are reconciled monthly, those documents can be produced quickly and they hold up to scrutiny — income is coded consistently, private spending is separated, and the interims reconcile back to the lodged history. It does not guarantee any lending outcome, but it removes the most common self-employed bottleneck: numbers a lender cannot verify.

Yes, and that is the point of keeping the books clean monthly. Because the file is reconciled as we go, the quarterly BAS is a review rather than a rebuild, and the year-end company, trust or individual return starts from numbers we already trust. Bookkeeping, BAS and the return can be scoped together under one engagement, or you can take the bookkeeping on its own.