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Xero bookkeeping for Perth businesses

Perth businesses can have their books kept in a Xero file your accountant can open too, wherever your accountant happens to work. Invite your accountant as a user, and the records we keep are the same ones they see.

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  • Sources checked 15 Oct 2026

Sharing a Xero file with your accountant

  • A login of their own

    You invite your accountant to your Xero organisation as a user and choose the role they have. There's no exporting files or sending copies back and forth to keep everyone in step.

  • Distance doesn't change the work

    Your accountant might work in Western Australia or in another state. Either way, they sign in to Xero and find the reconciliations, bills and invoices just as we've left them.

  • Questions left where the work is

    When a transaction needs your accountant's view, such as how to treat an unusual payment, we leave a note on it in Xero and flag it to you rather than guess.

  • Year end from monthly books

    When year end comes, your accountant works from books reconciled month by month, in a file they can already open.

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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Questions about working alongside your accountant

Does it matter if your accountant works on eastern states time?
Not for the bookkeeping. Western Australia runs behind the eastern states, but the work sits in the Xero file rather than in a chain of emails, so your accountant can open it during their own hours.
What access should your accountant have?
That's your decision. Xero lets you pick a user's role and permissions when you invite them, and you can change or remove that access later.
What if your accountant changes something in the file?
We see the change when we next work in the file. Xero keeps a history on each transaction showing what changed and who made the change.
Do you work alongside your accountant, or instead of them?
Alongside. Your accountant keeps their role and their access to the file, and the bookkeeping we do is what they work from.
Does your accountant need to use Xero as well?
To work in the file directly, they need a login. Otherwise, you can export reports from Xero and send them on.

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.