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Entrepreneurs don’t dream of payroll optimisation strategies or filing invoices. You started a business to follow your passions, serve your community and enjoy the wealth you’ve earned. Let us help you get back to what matters.
For nearly half a century, Liston Newton’s professional bookkeeping services in Melbourne have helped local small business owners optimise and (equally important) enjoy their work. With our unrivalled experience and market-leading accounting software, we’ll streamline your business processes for cash flow management and offer growth-focused financial planning advice.
Before we get into the details, let’s start with a coffee. Come for a cup at our South Melbourne bookkeeping office on Level 3 67 Palmerston Crescent. We’re a step away from Flinders Street Station, and there’s plenty of city parking around. We’re happy to come to you or set up a virtual consultation at your convenience.
Monday to Friday
8am to 5pm
On street parking on Palmerston Crescent
Entrepreneurs don’t dream of payroll optimisation strategies or filing invoices. You started a business to follow your passions, serve your community and enjoy the wealth you’ve earned. Let us help you get back to what matters.
For nearly half a century, Liston Newton’s professional bookkeeping services in Melbourne have helped local small business owners optimise and (equally important) enjoy their work. With our unrivalled experience and market-leading accounting software, we’ll streamline your business processes for cash flow management and offer growth-focused financial planning advice.
Before we get into the details, let’s start with a coffee. Come for a cup at our South Melbourne bookkeeping office on Level 3 67 Palmerston Crescent. We’re a step away from Flinders Street Station, and there’s plenty of city parking around. We’re happy to come to you or set up a virtual consultation at your convenience.
Monday to Friday
8am to 5pm
On street parking on Palmerston Crescent
Our bookkeeping solutions are only one facet of our holistic approach to helping Melbourne’s small businesses. We’ll work closely with you and your team to design a personalised plan to improve your business’s financial performance. That plan may include any of the following services.
Liston Newton helped us move our accounting over to Xero. Their Accountant managed the set up and training so we felt comfortable with the software. We now have all our processes streamlined which gives us improved visibility of our business performance. This has allowed us to open 2 more stores without a significant increase in administration effort.
The bookkeeping and accounting department is the heart of all small businesses. They keep the money flowing smoothly, allowing the other departments and contractors to do their best work. Many business owners open shop with a great idea but a poor understanding of the difficulties of proper accounting.
Our Melbourne-based bookkeepers can handle all of your accounting responsibilities. Let us upgrade your outdated, traditional bookkeeping software to a streamlined cloud-based platform; we’ll automate your accounts payable to ensure invoices are up to date; we’ll even schedule regular management reporting to ensure you fully understand your business finances. Long story short, let us make your life easier.
At Liston Newton Advisory, we take pride in helping business owners get more out of their hard work. Our downloadable guides can give you an in-depth look at strategies and technologies that will help your business grow.
Our Melbourne bookkeeping office has earned accreditations from leading Australian financial institutions.
Australia’s most experienced and professional accountants — with industry leading qualifications and accreditations to show for it. Learn more from a specialised business accountant.
Our bookkeepers have kept the Liston Newton Advisory business growing for over 40 years. We’ll use that experience to help you achieve equally stellar results.
We have clients who’ve trusted us for decades. The only way to earn that level of trust is with hard work, proven results and, we like to think, easy charm and good banter.
Smart business owners know when to ask for help. We offer far more than outsourced accounting services. Tell us your goals, and we’ll design a strategy to meet them.
At Liston Newton Advisory, we embrace change and innovations in technology. We encourage our clients to make use of the latest cloud software.
Bookkeeping is the basic first step of any accounting process. While some consider it grunt work before the important work begins, we see it as building a critical foundation. Why erect a palace on a bed of sand? Our Melbourne bookkeepers have proven their invaluable service to local merchants time and again.
There’s not a word of a boast on this page. Whether you’re starting a new business, expanding one, or getting your personal accounts and investments in order, you can trust that our bookkeeping service works. Our award-winning success lies in our flawless attention to detail and unwavering commitment to your personal and professional goals.
Expect success with:
Read through our collection of case studies. As you’ll see, our ability to build a strong financial foundation is second to none.
The first phase is all about establishing the fundamentals of your business and creating a strong foundation to build from. You also need to establish your long-term goals so you have a clear idea of what you're working towards.
The second phase is about gaining a deeper understanding of your business; how to make it more efficient and experience sustainable growth. This is where you transition from working in your business to working on your business.
The final phase is when all your hard work really starts to pay off. This is when you start using your profits to build your personal worth to a point that give you financial freedom—the freedom to work only if you want to.
See how Willow Urban Retreat owner Jeremy gained clarity over his business performance and reduced time-consuming tasks with help from the Liston Newton team.
We have helped Cambridge Plumbing to manage and forecast cash flow. We've also provided the director with advice on wealth creation and asset allocation.
After helping them transition to Xero, we conducted quarterly business coaching with Quality Energy and helped increase their profits by 90 per cent.
Community service isn’t a corporate chore for us. It’s a personal obligation. As business owners who have found financial success and freedom, we feel we have a responsibility to help others reach their full potential, too. We contribute our expertise and financially support a number of charities and initiatives, including:
We’ve selected these initiatives because they’re particularly close to our hearts. But we’re just the Melbourne team. Each of our teams across Australia has chosen their own set of charities to support.
We strongly recommend all businesses have a bookkeeper, even if just to manage basic accounting tasks. Many small business owners feel they can handle the responsibilities alongside their regular workload. We’d discourage that thought.
Without a dedicated bookkeeper, you’ll likely quickly fall behind and find yourself facing the following problems:
As these problems snowball, you’ll be forced to dedicate more hours per week to manage them.
A bookkeeper is not the same thing as an accountant.
Bookkeepers handle day-to-day financial transactions, such as:
Accountants are accredited financial experts who specialise in strategic financial services, such as:
Every accounting platform has its drawbacks and benefits. The right software for you will depend on your unique needs. However, we believe Xero is the most robust, user-friendly and useful accounting and bookkeeping software.
One particularly useful feature of Xero’s platform is its cloud-based accounting, which allows you to access financial insights instantly from anywhere. That level of usability allows you to make informed yet quick business decisions when opportunities, or problems, arise.
Bookkeeping costs vary depending on the responsibilities you need covered. For example, you may only need a bookkeeper to update your records for a few hours every week, or you may need an expert to manage the finances of multiple stores.
Liston Newton’s sibling company, Bigger Fish, are our trusted bookkeeping expert. Review their bookkeeping packages to find the right option for you.
‘Artificial intelligence’ is not intelligence. But AI tools are exciting. The hype around the possible capabilities of such tools has blinded many to the shoddy reality of their output. And so, business owners in practically all industries have started using AI tools without understanding what they are, how they work or their limitations. We don’t want to make that mistake.
At Liston Newton, we leverage our decades of experience to create business-specific accounting and growth strategies. We’ll admit to testing AI and other emerging technology as tools for rote tasks, but our high-level strategies are written by humans. As was this page.
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