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Bookkeeping for IT businesses

IT businesses earn from project work, monthly support agreements and resold hardware or licences, while their own spending runs through cloud subscriptions and contractors. We look after day-to-day bookkeeping for IT businesses across Australia.

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Businesses in Computer System Design and Related Services (ANZSIC class 7000)

Actively trading businesses across Australia
63,927 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 15 October 2026
Of those, classified as non-employing
34,359 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 15 October 2026
Of those, with 1 to 4 employees
24,164 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 15 October 2026

Businesses by main state or territory

These counts are for the ANZSIC class Computer System Design and Related Services, which covers custom software development, IT consulting, network design and computer facilities management, and also takes in web design consulting. IT businesses that mainly publish software, host websites, process data or install computer cabling are counted in other classes, so they are not in these counts.

  1. New South Wales24,193 businesses
  2. Victoria18,874 businesses
  3. Queensland10,375 businesses
  4. Western Australia4,417 businesses
  5. South Australia2,682 businesses
  6. Australian Capital Territory2,460 businesses
  7. Tasmania624 businesses
  8. Northern Territory183 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2025. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx). Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Businesses by number of employees

  1. Non-employing34,359 businesses
  2. 1 to 4 employees24,164 businesses
  3. 5 to 19 employees3,898 businesses
  4. 20 to 199 employees1,422 businesses
  5. 200 or more employees84 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2025. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx). Checked 15 Oct 2026.

What we look after

What the books involve

  • Support agreements: managed service and helpdesk contracts invoiced on a recurring cycle, with each customer's payments matched and any invoice past its due date listed every month.
  • Project billing: development and implementation work invoiced by milestone or by hours logged, with the amount billed on each project so far compared with the agreed contract value.
  • Resold hardware and licences: distributor invoices for laptops, network gear and software licences matched to the customer invoices that pass them on, so resale margins sit apart from service income.
  • Cloud and software spending: hosting, development tools and the business's own subscriptions, including those charged in foreign currencies to a card, coded each month with receipts attached.
  • Contract developers and technicians: their invoices entered as bills against the project or customer they worked for, then matched to the payments that clear them.
  • Helpdesk or project tools that bill into Xero or QuickBooks Online checked against the bank feed, so synced invoices and customer payments agree before each account is reconciled.

Sources

  1. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx)

    Australian Bureau of Statistics. Actively trading businesses at 30 June 2025, released 16 December 2025. Checked 15 October 2026.

    Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, June 2021 to June 2025, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.

  2. Correspondence, GCCSA 2021 to GCCSA 2026 (CG_GCCSA_2021_GCCSA_2026.csv)

    Australian Bureau of Statistics. ASGS Edition 4, July 2026 to June 2031, released 22 July 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 4, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.

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