I'm Ashley Boardman, an accountant in Perth. Thirty years in the ledger, and thirty years building the software that runs it.
Get in touch What I doTaking on new clients. Perth, and remote anywhere in Australia.
Almost always the same story. Something in the numbers stopped making sense, everyone worked around it for months, and now a lender, a buyer or the ATO wants an answer.
Getting you onto the right software, set up so the reports mean something.
Tax codes get set the way your registered agent wants them.
Finding where it went wrong and getting the file back to something you can rely on.
I work on the ledger. I don't chase debts.
Checking someone else's numbers and writing it up so you can hand it straight on.
Review and reporting. Not a statutory audit.
Premiums rest on employers declaring their wages correctly, and a declaration is only ever as good as the payroll behind it.
I read payroll the way it is actually kept, not the way it is meant to look. Awards, allowances, overtime, contractors treated as staff, and the quiet places where the declared figure drifts from the ledger.
Classification is the other half. A labour hire declaration can be right in total and still misrated, because the split across premium rating classifications is wrong. I test declared splits against the WorkCover WA Industry Classification Order, for insurers at portfolio level, and for labour hire employers keeping their placement records and declarations right.
None of this work is secret. There's an AI that will explain reconciliation to you at two in the morning, and someone cheaper who will have a go at it.
Neither of them will open your file, spend four days finding the six transactions that broke it, choose between several perfectly defensible treatments, and then stand behind that answer when your bank asks who did the work.
I build accounting software as well, so I know exactly where automation stops. Most of what I get paid for is on the far side of that line.
No retainer, no minimum term, no surprises on the invoice.
A couple of paragraphs by email, or a phone call. Enough for me to know whether it's mine to fix.
A short paid review of the actual state of things, so neither of us is guessing at the size of the job.
You get what I'll do and what it costs before any work starts. If it isn't worth doing, I'll say so.
I started in construction payroll, building award rules into a spreadsheet because the alternative was doing it by hand for a hundred and twenty people. Then an MYOB rollout and the GST changeover.
Twelve years as a licensed investigator followed, where the whole job was checking whether things held up and writing down what you found. Same instinct throughout: find what doesn't reconcile.
Software that checks accounting data in Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks. It runs the reconciliation logic automatically and flags what slips past someone reading down a screen.
It came out of this work. The checks I kept running by hand on other people's files turned into rules, and the rules turned into a product. You don't need it to work with me.
Acuvant.com.auTell me what's gone wrong and I'll tell you whether it's mine to fix, and roughly what it would take. If it isn't, I'll point you somewhere better.