Birch Books & BAS

Birch Books & BAS is a bookkeeping practice in Queensland, Australia, whose staff work as bookkeepers and BAS agents. It takes on businesses whose records are in disarray, whose accounts have fallen behind or whose owners cannot tell how the business is really doing. The practice runs offices in both the north and the south of the state.

What Birch Books & BAS does

• Bookkeeping: sorting out messy or overdue records and keeping them current afterwards.
• BAS agent work: handling business activity statements as registered BAS agents.
• Accounting software set-up: for instance, moving a client onto QuickBooks Online; one owner describes this being done across three restaurants.
• Business advice: ongoing professional guidance for owners, which one long-standing client credits with helping his businesses grow.

Who it works with

The clients quoted on its site include a rural station and a small restaurant group, which points to owner-run businesses in regional Queensland.

Key facts

• Based in: Queensland, Australia
• Offices: Cairns, Atherton, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast
• Way of working: aims to run as close to paperless as possible, using technology to cut manual handling
• Regulation: liability limited under a scheme approved by Professional Standards legislation