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Small business bookkeeping for Perth businesses

When a spreadsheet or a shoebox of receipts stops keeping up with the business, it's time for accounting software and a regular routine. We help with getting access to the software, connecting supported bank feeds and training, and after that the bookkeeping each month is ours.

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  • Sources checked 15 Oct 2026

From a spreadsheet to monthly books

  • Into the software

    Once you've chosen Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks and started a subscription, we help you get into the software and invite us in as a user.

  • Bank feeds instead of typing

    We connect a feed for each account whose bank supports one, so its transactions arrive in the software instead of being copied from statements into a spreadsheet.

  • The jobs that stay with you

    We show you the tasks you'll keep, such as sending an invoice or saving a receipt photo against its payment, so the software feels familiar from the start.

  • Then a monthly routine

    Once the feeds are running, the bookkeeping becomes ours: transactions recorded, bills entered and the accounts reconciled each month, with your reports to follow.

Perth businesses in figures

Estimated resident population of Greater Perth, 30 June 2025 (preliminary)
2,452,765 peopleAustralian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Growth in the estimated resident population of Greater Perth, 30 June 2024 to 30 June 2025
2.4%Australian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Actively trading businesses whose main business address is in Greater Perth, June 2025
214,256 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Perth businesses by industry

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

  1. Construction37,190 businesses
  2. Professional, Scientific and Technical Services29,947 businesses
  3. Transport, Postal and Warehousing25,911 businesses
  4. Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services23,706 businesses
  5. Health Care and Social Assistance17,063 businesses
  6. Other Services11,517 businesses
  7. Financial and Insurance Services11,093 businesses
  8. Retail Trade10,691 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Perth businesses by number of employees

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

  1. Non-employing140,596 businesses
  2. 1 to 4 employees48,281 businesses
  3. 5 to 19 employees19,021 businesses
  4. 20 to 199 employees6,100 businesses
  5. 200 or more employees276 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses. Checked 15 Oct 2026.

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Moving off the spreadsheet

Which software should we choose?
We work in Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks, so any of them suits us. It's worth asking your accountant too, since they'll work from it as well.
What happens to our old spreadsheet?
Pick a date to switch over. From then on, everything goes into the software, and the spreadsheet stays as your record of the months before. If your accountant wants those earlier months in the software too, we can enter them from your bank statements as catch-up work.
We have a shoebox of receipts. Do we sort them first?
No need. Photos or scans are enough. We attach each receipt to the bank transaction it belongs to and ask you about any we can't place.
How do invoices work once we're off the spreadsheet?
You send them from the software instead of a document or spreadsheet. When a customer pays, the payment in the bank feed can then be matched to the invoice it settles.
How much of the work stays with us?
Sending invoices and keeping receipts, if you'd like. Recording transactions, entering bills, reconciling the accounts and preparing the monthly reports become our jobs.

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.