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Bookkeeping for Bathurst businesses

After construction, rental, hiring and real estate services is the next largest group in the industry chart below. Where rent comes in through a property manager, there are statements to match as well as bank lines, and we handle both for Bathurst businesses inside the Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks file they already run.

  • By Book Keeping Pros
  • Sources checked 15 Oct 2026

Bathurst businesses in figures

Estimated resident population of the Bathurst Significant Urban Area, 30 June 2025 (preliminary)
39,013 peopleAustralian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Growth in the estimated resident population of the Bathurst Significant Urban Area, 30 June 2024 to 30 June 2025
0.8%Australian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Actively trading businesses whose main business address is in the Bathurst Significant Urban Area, June 2025
2,859 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

What we do for Bathurst businesses

  • Property manager statements

    Each owner statement is matched to the deposit it explains, and the fees and repair costs it lists are recorded against the property they belong to.

  • A build-up of unreconciled lines

    If the bank feed has run ahead of the bookkeeping, we work through the unreconciled lines month by month until the file agrees with the bank again.

  • Credit notes and refunds

    Supplier credit notes are applied to the bills they reduce, and refunds are matched to the payments they reverse, so a returned amount isn't left sitting as a cost.

Bathurst businesses by industry

The ABS may perturb small counts to protect confidentiality, so the figures need not add up exactly.

  1. Construction630 businesses
  2. Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services287 businesses
  3. Health Care and Social Assistance282 businesses
  4. Professional, Scientific and Technical Services245 businesses
  5. Other Services216 businesses
  6. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing200 businesses
  7. Transport, Postal and Warehousing178 businesses
  8. Retail Trade157 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Bathurst businesses by number of employees

The ABS may perturb small counts to protect confidentiality, so the figures need not add up exactly.

  1. Non-employing1,580 businesses
  2. 1 to 4 employees837 businesses
  3. 5 to 19 employees359 businesses
  4. 20 to 199 employees88 businesses
  5. 200 or more employees6 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Payroll tax and long service leave in New South Wales

Each state and territory sets its own payroll tax and long service leave rules. The payroll tax figures are for the 2026-27 financial year.

Annual payroll tax threshold in New South Wales, 2026-27
$1,200,000Revenue NSW. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Payroll tax rate in New South Wales, 2026-27
5.45%Revenue NSW. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Long service leave in New South Wales: years of service for the full entitlement
10 yearsNSW Industrial Relations. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

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Bathurst business owners often ask

We hold rental property in the business. What gets recorded?
Rent received, agent fees, council rates, insurance, repairs and loan repayments, each against the right property and reconciled to the bank. How those amounts are treated at the end of the year is a question for your accountant.
Do the figures stop at the edge of town?
Not necessarily. The ABS counts people and businesses within a Significant Urban Area, which groups whole statistical areas around an urban centre or related centres and can include surrounding rural land.
Our clinic is months behind. Where would you start?
From the earliest month still unreconciled. We work forward to the present, then move the file onto a monthly routine so the backlog doesn't return.
Do you work with the firm that prepares our accounts?
We can. The file is reconciled through the year, and your accountant logs in to the same Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks file to do their part.
How do you decide what to charge?
From the number of bank accounts and properties, the monthly flow of transactions and how much catching up there is. You see the quote before we do any work.

Sources

  1. Population estimates by LGA, Significant Urban Area, Remoteness Area and electoral division, 2001 to 2025 (32180DS0004_2001-25.xlsx)

    Australian Bureau of Statistics. Estimated resident population at 30 June, 2001 to 2025 (2022 to 2024 revised, 2025 preliminary), released 31 March 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional population, 2024-25 financial year, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.

  2. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 8: Businesses by industry division by Statistical Area Level 2 by employment size ranges (8165DC08.xlsx)

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

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

  3. Payroll tax thresholds and rates

    Revenue NSW. 2025-26 and 2026-27, released 1 July 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    © State of New South Wales through Revenue NSW Licence: Revenue NSW terms of use: copyright, State of New South Wales.

  4. Long Service Leave Guide (NSW), March 2026

    NSW Industrial Relations. First published March 2026, released 2 March 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    © State of New South Wales 2026 Licence: All rights reserved, State of New South Wales.