Accounting & Bookkeeping
Comprehensive accounting that keeps your records accurate, compliant and decision-ready, prepared in line with South African standards and ready for SARS, banks and investors.
What's included
- Monthly bookkeeping and bank reconciliations
- Management accounts and cash-flow reporting
- Annual financial statements (IFRS for SMEs)
- Accounts payable and receivable management
- Year-end reporting and audit preparation
- Cloud accounting setup and support
Accounting only earns its cost when the numbers arrive early enough and reliably enough to act on. Books that are reconstructed at year end satisfy a filing requirement and tell you nothing you can use while there is still time to respond.
We run the work at whatever level fits: capturing and reconciliation, a full managed monthly close, reporting you can take to a board, or an outsourced finance function that covers all of it.
Go straight to what you need
Which level do you actually need?
The most common mistake is buying bookkeeping and expecting management information. They are different services, and the gap between them is where most disappointment sits.
Bookkeeping records transactions. Monthly accounting adds the close and the accounting judgements. Management accounts add interpretation. An outsourced finance function adds senior review and the cash and budgeting work on top.
- Bookkeeping: accurate records, reconciled monthly
- Monthly accounting: a closed period with accruals and cut-off applied
- Management accounts: reporting with comparison and commentary
- Outsourced finance: the whole function, with senior review
Good monthly work makes everything downstream cheaper
Most of the cost in a year-end engagement is reconstruction, and reconstruction exists only where the monthly work was not done. The same applies to tax: a provisional estimate built from real management accounts is both more accurate and far quicker than one guessed from last year.
This is the practical argument for a monthly cycle. It is not primarily about reporting. It is that every other financial obligation becomes easier and cheaper when the books are already right.
We work in your system
Sage, Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho or Odoo, we work in what you already have rather than requiring a migration as the price of engagement.
Where the system genuinely is the constraint, we will say so and scope the move as its own project rather than folding a migration into monthly work and disrupting both.
Before you get in touch
What is the difference between bookkeeping and accounting? +
Bookkeeping records what happened. Accounting interprets it, accruals, provisions, depreciation and cut-off. Businesses that buy only bookkeeping often pay for the accounting at year end anyway, usually at a higher rate.
Do we need monthly accounts, or is annual enough? +
Annual is enough to comply. Monthly is what lets you act, gives you defensible provisional tax estimates, and makes year end substantially cheaper. If you are making decisions on the bank balance, that is the argument for monthly.
Can you work alongside our existing accountant? +
Yes, and it is common. We run the monthly cycle and hand a clean trial balance to whoever prepares the statutory accounts.
We are years behind. Can you fix it? +
Yes, as a defined catch-up engagement. We rebuild from the last reliable position in sequence, quantify what the backlog was hiding, and hand over onto a normal monthly cycle so it does not recur.
Talk to us about accounting & bookkeeping
Tell us where you are and what is outstanding. We will come back with a scope and a clear starting point.
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