Services Offered


We can tailor our services to meet your needs, either working from our office or coming to you if the complexity and scale demands. Most of our clients are within the Sydney Metropolitan area, however by utilising cloud-based applications we are also now servicing clients with head offices based interstate and overseas.


Where you require regular bookkeeping services but don't need to employ a full-time or permanent employee, why not contract us? We can provide services on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, or on-call basis. 


We work with you – so you can work on your business.

  • Bookkeeping Services
    • Entry of all business transactions
    • Accurate tracking of sales and stock
    • Reconciliation of bank accounts, credit card accounts, loan accounts, inter-entity loan accounts
    • Preparation of accounts in line with ATO requirements
    • Preparation of reports, including profit and loss, balance sheet, cost centre profitability, cash flow, budget
    • Financial analysis
    • Special projects
  • Payroll Services
    • Weekly, fortnightly, monthly pay runs, whether salary or hourly employees, full time, part time or casual 
    • Single Touch Payroll (STP) reporting
    • Preparation of pays from time sheets 
    • Preparation of superannuation remittances and PAYG remittance 
    • Leave calculations – annual, sick, long service
    • Termination of employment calculations 
    • Year end STP reconciliations, reporting and ATO lodgement 
  • Accounts Receivable
    • Entry of invoices and customer payments
    • Monitoring of aged receivables, sending of statements
    • Following up overdue debtor payments 
  • Accounts Payable
    • Entry of bills and preparation of electronic files for upload to banking software for payment to suppliers 
    • Monitoring of ages payables, to ensure the most urgent bills are paid first 
    • Monitoring of cash flow
  • Meeting Statutory Obligations
    • Preparation of BAS and IAS returns, and reconciliation of accounts 
    • Preparation of superannuation payments 
    • Preparation of payroll tax returns 
    • Preparation and lodgement of STP reports
  • Accounting Software
    • Advice on which accounting software or cloud-based solution best suits your business 
    • Provide on-site set up, training and ongoing support
    • Customisation of your current software to fully utilise all features (including use of transaction rules, relevant apps, etc)

We also offer advice on improvements to back-office procedures. Experience has taught us that client costs can be reduced through efficiency gains made by streamlining business processes. This aspect of our services can be explored once we have established an understanding of your business.



Quality, Risk and Regulation


Sydney Bookkeeping is a wholly owned division of Harrington McNamara Business Services Pty Limited, a Chartered Accounting and Business Advisory firm. Harrington McNamara Business Services Pty Limited is registered as a tax agent with the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) and is subject to the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (TASA), including the Code of Professional Conduct.


Register of Tax Agents and BAS Agents Available for You to Search


The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) maintains a register with details of registered, suspended and deregistered tax and BAS agents. This register is available to the public to search at https://www.tpb.gov.au/public-register.

 

We are obliged to advise clients of certain events which may influence your decision to engage us as your tax agent. There are no current issues about which we are obliged to advise you.

 

We are also obliged to advise you whether there are any conditions attached to our registration. There are no current conditions attached to our registration.


Your Rights Under Taxation Laws (Including the Tax Agent Services Act and the Tax Agent Services Code of Professional Conduct)

 

 Please refer to the attached fact sheet published by the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) summarising your obligations to the ATO, and your tax practitioner’s obligations to you, the TPB and ATO at https://www.tpb.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-10/Information%20for%20clients%20factsheet.pdf.