Bookkeeping that the return can be built on.

Hourly bookkeepers typically charge $45–$90 an hour, which makes budgeting impossible and rewards slow work. We price monthly instead: from $220 for a GST-registered sole trader, $390 for a small company including BAS, and $590 with payroll for up to ten staff. Catch-up and cleanup are quoted separately so you can see exactly what the backlog costs versus the ongoing service.

If you're GST-registered with employees, you need both functions — but not necessarily two providers. Bookkeeping keeps the data right; accounting turns it into compliance and advice. Splitting them across two firms means paying twice for the same reconciliation and losing a month at year-end while files are exchanged. Combining them is usually cheaper and always faster.

Yes, and we often do — we review, correct and lodge from their file. What we won't do is sign off a BAS on a file we can't verify. If the data quality isn't there, we'll say so with specifics rather than quietly absorbing the risk.

For almost every small business, yes — better, usually, because bank feeds, document capture and cloud software removed the reason to be on site. What matters is whether the person is a registered BAS Agent, whether they reconcile properly, and whether they tell you when something looks wrong. Location doesn't affect any of those.

It's routine. We reconstruct from bank data and source documents, lodge the outstanding BAS in sequence, and where there's a reasonable explanation apply for penalty remission. Getting current also restores access to agent lodgement concessions — which is worth real money in itself.

Xero for most small businesses, MYOB where payroll or inventory is complex, QuickBooks where price matters most. We're certified in all three and will happily work in the one you already have — configuration matters far more than brand.