Ballarat Accounting & Advisory Pty Ltd

Ballarat Accounting & Advisory Pty Ltd is an accounting firm servicing Ballarat and surrounding areas. Paul Joiner is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years' experience in public practice. He specialises in taxation, GST, business structures, succession and tax planning, with a strong focus on primary production. Natalie Byers is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years' experience in public practice. She specialises in taxation, GST, tax planning and self-managed super fund compliance.

Julie Baker has worked in the public practice industry for over 30 years and is experienced in all aspects of bookkeeping, payroll, GST/BAS compliance and accounting software packages. The firm offers business and personal accounting and tax, business advice for start-up and business purchases, BAS, GST compliance and bookkeeping services, and self-managed superannuation fund compliance. Liability is limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

People running their own ventures, together with their partners, appear throughout the feedback for this Ballarat practice, and the assistance described reaches past routine compliance work. A theme that emerges is cloud accounting setup and the creation of business accounts, paired with advice intended to expand an enterprise and introductions to contacts and resources owners found useful. Paul and Julie are named repeatedly for the attention they give, including one account of work continuing during a period of leave so that urgent documents could be readied for a client.

A number of reviews mention a welcoming, friendly and competent team, and a service that feels tailored and personal rather than impersonal. Honesty and transparency in financial dealings feature as qualities clients appreciate, especially when an owner wants clarity on accounting needs. Clients who left larger firms note that they found the individual attention they had been seeking. Bookkeeping, tax and business advisory tasks run through the comments, and staying reachable for questions afterwards is a point that comes up often.