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Small business bookkeeping for Melbourne businesses

If you've been keeping the books yourself, you can hand the monthly work to us and stay in the software and file you already use. We pick up from where your records are up to and carry the routine on from there.

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  • Sources checked 15 Oct 2026

Handing over books you've kept yourself

  • The file you already know

    We join the accounting file you keep now, whether it's Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks, as an extra user. Your accounts, contacts and past entries stay put, and so does your own login.

  • A look before we take over

    We read through what you've entered recently and ask about anything we can't follow, such as a transfer between accounts or a deposit we can't match to an invoice.

  • The monthly jobs, moved to us

    Each month we record the bank feed transactions, enter supplier bills, apply customer payments to their invoices and compare each account with its statement, explaining anything that doesn't line up, such as a payment still to clear.

  • Keep the jobs you enjoy

    If you'd rather carry on sending your own invoices, that's fine. We agree at the outset which tasks become ours and which stay with you.

Melbourne businesses in figures

Estimated resident population of Greater Melbourne, 30 June 2025 (preliminary)
5,435,590 peopleAustralian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Growth in the estimated resident population of Greater Melbourne, 30 June 2024 to 30 June 2025
2%Australian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Melbourne businesses by industry

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

  1. Construction98,687 businesses
  2. Professional, Scientific and Technical Services82,161 businesses
  3. Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services67,719 businesses
  4. Health Care and Social Assistance46,837 businesses
  5. Retail Trade38,368 businesses
  6. Financial and Insurance Services32,956 businesses
  7. Administrative and Support Services30,610 businesses
  8. Other Services27,310 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

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Before you hand over the books

Do I need to tidy the file before handing it over?
No. Leave it as it is. Finding the entries that need a second look is part of taking over, and it helps us to see how you've been doing things.
I've been recording things my own way. Will you change that?
We work with the accounts already in your file. If something seems to be recorded in the wrong place, we show you and ask before we change it.
Once you've taken over, what's still my job?
Mostly answering our questions. When a bank feed shows a payment with no receipt or bill behind it, we ask what it was for, and you send the receipt if you have it.
Does anything change for your accountant?
They keep working from the same file as before. Let them know we're doing the monthly bookkeeping, so questions about the books during the year can come straight to us.
Can I hand over partway through the year?
Yes. We start from the month you choose. Earlier months stay as you entered them, and if we notice something in them that affects the months we're working on, we tell you.

Sources

  1. Population estimates by SA2 and above, 2001 to 2025 (32180DS0003_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. 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.