Bookkeeping and tax for Montmorency businesses.

Doing business in Montmorency

Montmorency's commercial heart is the shopping village on Were Street, just south of the station between Binns Street and Rattray Road. It's a compact strip with a strong local following and more than fifty business premises, from cafés and food shops to hairdressers, health practitioners and small professional offices. Many of those traders belong to the Montmorency Traders Association, which looks after the precinct alongside Banyule City Council.

Beyond the village, a lot of Montmorency's working life happens at home. The quiet, leafy streets that run down towards the Plenty River parklands are home to consultants, tradespeople, therapists and small online sellers running a business from a home office or the garage. That mix shapes the help people need.

Where we can help

For Were Street shopkeepers and hospitality owners, the pressure points are usually staff and cash. Casual and part-time rosters mean payroll that changes every week, Single Touch Payroll reporting that has to be right each pay run, and award conditions that need watching. Our payroll service takes that off your plate, and regular bookkeeping keeps your takings, supplier invoices and bank accounts reconciled so you can see which weeks actually made money.

For home-based businesses in Montmorency, it's more often about getting organised and staying that way. That might mean registering for GST at the right time, setting up Xero, QuickBooks Online or MYOB so your bank feeds do most of the work, and making sure your quarterly BAS goes in on time. When the financial year ends, we prepare and lodge your income tax return as a registered tax agent.

Behind on your paperwork? That's common, particularly for owners who are busy behind the counter all week. We can work through a backlog of unreconciled transactions and overdue lodgements, talk to the ATO on your behalf where needed, and then keep things current so the catch-up never has to happen again.

If your Montmorency business is growing, our business advisory service adds regular check-ins on profit, cash flow and the numbers that matter for your next decision, whether that's taking on a staff member or signing a longer lease.

Meeting in Montmorency

Montmorency is about three kilometres from our office on Grimshaw Street, so a visit is easy to arrange. Brian is happy to come to your shop or your home office for the first conversation, which is often the best way to understand how your business runs day to day. You're also welcome at our Greensborough office, a short trip down the hill or one stop on the Hurstbridge line.

After that first meeting, most of the work happens in your cloud accounting software, with phone and email in between, and face-to-face catch-ups whenever they're useful. You see your figures whenever you like, and you always know who to call.