Practical bookkeeping for sole traders and small businesses across New Zealand. Set up properly the first time, taught in plain English, with a real human alongside you for as long as you need.
Expenses they were entitled to claim, quietly going unclaimed year after year. I set your Xero up properly and sit alongside you on every expense, so everything you're entitled to gets claimed. That one decision puts you in the other half - the sorted half.
Read what happens when clients make the switchI work with people who want to make more informed decisions about their business. Some want to understand the books themselves. Others want a real human running them. Either way is fine. Here's where you might be starting from.
You've just gone sole trader, opened Xero, and immediately closed it. The chart of accounts looks like a foreign language. You don't know what you don't know.
You've been doing it yourself a few years. It mostly works. But GST time is stressful, you suspect you're missing claims, and you want a second set of eyes.
You've got 1-5 staff. Payroll keeps you up at night - KiwiSaver, leave, PAYE. You want someone who'll just sort it without making you feel daft for asking.
Five things - pick one, pick all.
Set up properly the first time. Migration, chart of accounts, bank rules, and the training to use Xero with confidence afterwards - at your pace, in plain English.
Real human running your books alongside you. You stay informed - and I catch the things you'd miss yourself. Monthly rhythm, no end-of-year cram.
Filed on time, every time. No panic at deadline week, and the claims you didn't know you could make.
PAYE, leave, payslips, KiwiSaver, ACC. Run on time so your team is paid right.
Sole trader end-of-year prepped throughout the year, not crammed in March.
No obligation, no upsell, no jargon. If we're not the right fit, I'll tell you and point you somewhere better.
30 minutes on a call. Tell me where you're at with Xero, what's tripping you up. No obligation, no jargon.
I look at what's in your file. Migrate, fix, build the chart of accounts properly, set rules that fit you.
Screen-share walkthrough at your pace, in plain English. We stop when you've got it.
Stay on for monthly bookkeeping, or fly solo and call me back when you need. Either is fine.
By the hour, monthly, or monthly with reporting.
From $70/hr or $315/month.
You are worth your weight in gold. We really appreciate all the work you do and we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you.
I came to Karen from Hnry as a sole trader. Three years in and I hadn't realised I'd been leaving money on the table - properly leaving money. The claims I'd been missing paid for her work in the first quarter. Now I understand what's happening in my books, with the added benefit of looking the part.
You have just given me accounting therapy. I actually find this enjoyable!
I've been bookkeeping for over a decade. Sole traders, contractors, and small companies who want a real human running their books alongside them - and alongside their accountant where one's involved.
I ran my own business for ten years before I started this practice - sole trader through to Ltd company, five staff. That's why I work the way I do.
Think of me as a business partner running alongside you. Not just a bookkeeper running your numbers. The way that shows up:
Tell me a bit about you and your business. I'll come back within a working day and we'll find a time to chat. Free, no obligation, no daft questions - I mean that.
Or call me on 027 283 5312