Industry — Accounting Firms
IT for accounting firms — tax-period reliable.
Managed IT, M365, security and remote-work for 5-to-50-partner practices. Xero, MYOB, BGL, Class Super, QuickBooks fluent. We run the boring infrastructure so the practice runs through tax-period crunch and year-end peak.
- Microsoft Solutions Partner
- ISO 27001
- Privacy Act / NDB
- Pricing on request
- Month-to-month
- No lock-in
Tax-period weeks are in your calendar before you mention them
Tax-period quarters and year-end aren't a busy season — they are the practice. If the file server, Xero session, M365 mailbox, practice-management database or revenue-authority portal goes down on a Tuesday in July, it costs partner billable hours and client trust at once.
Most practice managers we talk to have lived one of three patterns:
Pattern A — The one-person internal IT
Brilliant, indispensable, and on annual leave the week of year-end. The partners notice.
Pattern B — The generic local provider
Friendly, responsive, doesn't know what BGL Simple Fund is, takes three days to learn the practice-management workflow, restarts the wrong VM during tax-period week.
Pattern C — The call-centre offshore arrangement
Cheap-per-ticket, expensive-per-incident. Escalation reaches a senior engineer on a good day, by lunchtime.
Pattern D — Locally accountable, built around your practice software
A named technical lead who knows your practice software
Xero, MYOB AE/AO, BGL Simple Fund 360, BGL CAS 360, Class Super, QuickBooks, Reckon. Named on your account. Escalation is a person, not a queue.
Tax-period and year-end hardened
Pre-period readiness: backups verified, patch state confirmed, revenue-authority integration tested, partner remote-access reviewed, change-freeze enforced where appropriate. Year-end peak playbook included.
M365 and SharePoint built for client-document confidentiality
Identity uplift, Conditional Access, multi-factor enforced, retention aligned to record-keeping rules. Cyber-insurance-questionnaire-ready by default.
Practical cyber for practices
Email security, EDR, backup immutability, phishing simulation. We don't sell a security operations centre if you don't need one. Heavy security language at 12-partner firms is a misfit.
Pricing that reads like a subscription
Pricing on request. Month-to-month. No lock-in. Self-selection filter: if you want a three-year contract with 8% annual escalators, we're not the fit. If you want predictable per-user IT that scales partner-by-partner, we are.
“Locally accountable. Built around your practice software.”
What's on the contract
- Xero · MYOB AE/AO · BGL Simple Fund 360 · BGL CAS 360 · Class Super · QuickBooks · Reckon
- ISO 27001
- Privacy Act / NDB compliant
- Record-keeping aware
- Sister-brand: BISTEC Bookkeeping (referenced where useful)
22-partner Sydney practice. Story coming soon.
Per user, per month — pricing on request
Month-to-month. No lock-in. Bands move with practice size, software stack, and after-hours coverage.
Predictable per-user IT that scales partner-by-partner.
21-point checklist
Tax-Period Continuity Checklist
21-point pre-period readiness check — backup, patch, identity, integration, partner-access, comms-plan. Run it yourself; we'll run it with you on request.
Year-End IT Readiness Checklist
The year-end sequence. Tax-table updates, software version states, archive cycles, security re-baseline.
Frequently asked
Yes — those four plus QuickBooks, Reckon and the major practice-management platforms. Named on every account onboarding.
Pre-period readiness check two weeks out. Change-freeze where appropriate. Priority queue for the practice through the period itself. Daily check-in on Defence-tier engagements.
Yes. Conditional Access, multi-factor, managed device posture, secure remote-access — that is the default build, not an upgrade.
For most 5-to-50-partner practices, the answer is bundled, not separate. We work the underwriter's questionnaire as part of onboarding. We rarely lead practices into heavy managed security — most don't need it.
Pricing on request. Month-to-month. No lock-in. Bands move with practice size, software stack, and whether after-hours coverage is required.
Sydney HQ at Macquarie Park. Senior leadership and customer-facing team operate from Sydney. Engineering depth from Colombo for build and migration work; the team you talk to is senior.
No — we partner with internal IT. Co-managed is our default at this practice size.
Tax-period weeks are your test. We pass them.
Twenty minutes. We'll talk practice-management software, tax calendar, partner remote-access posture.
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