Monthly bookkeeping for Australian businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

No — monthly bookkeeping is operational work inside your books, not something submitted to ATO. Where a filing does sit downstream of it, inside bookkeeping & accounting more broadly, that stays with your registered BAS or tax agent, never with us.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for monthly bookkeeping — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

Monthly bookkeeping sits inside bookkeeping & accounting, alongside Month-end close, Catch-up bookkeeping, Bank reconciliation. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

Bank and card feeds post transactions through the weeks and each one gets coded to the chart of accounts — including the GST tax code — as it arrives, with anything ambiguous flagged for the client's BAS agent rather than guessed at. That steady weekly coding is what keeps the quarter from becoming a scramble in the week before lodgment.

GST coding, payroll, and super liabilities accrue continuously regardless of when the BAS gets lodged. Keeping the ledger current every month means the quarter that lands with the BAS agent is already reconciled, not three months of transactions to untangle against a due date.

Profit and loss, balance sheet, reconciliation confirmation for every connected account, debtor/creditor aging, a GST summary by tax code, and a short variance note on anything that moved outside its normal range. General ledger detail is available on request.

No. Applying a standard tax code to a routine transaction is bookkeeping, but ascertaining or advising on a genuinely ambiguous BAS liability position is restricted under the Tax Agent Services Act to a registered BAS or tax agent. Those are flagged to the client's agent rather than coded on a guess.

The super clearing account is reconciled to the payroll register every month, not just when the quarterly SG due date approaches, so any gap between what's accrued in the ledger and what payroll software has calculated shows up early enough to act on.

The mechanics are the same — reconcile, review, deliver — but the June close also has to leave a trial balance that's ready to hand to the registered tax agent for the annual return, so that month gets an extra check against the full-year figures before it's called done.

No. The ASIC annual review date — the anniversary of company registration, separate from the 30 June financial year end — is noted in the client calendar so it doesn't get lost, but the review fee and the directors' solvency resolution are the client's and their advisor's responsibility.

Coding is the first pass, not the finish line. A month counts as done once every bank and card account ties to its statement, the GST-coded ledger is internally consistent, and the package has been reviewed before it goes out.

Unusual volume gets an extra review pass and shows up explicitly in that month's variance notes, and anything that touches an ambiguous GST position gets flagged to the BAS agent rather than absorbed silently into the normal coding flow.

Once several months of unreconciled GST coding and payroll stack up, the work stops being a routine monthly cycle and becomes a reconstruction job — sorting out what a lodged BAS should have reflected after the fact. That's its own engagement, separate from monthly service running on a normal cadence.