THE STUDIO
One desk. Every ledger in order.
Neat Figures is a deliberately small bookkeeping studio: one registered agent, a short client list, and a monthly rhythm that has not slipped in nine years of practice.
June Calloway
REGISTERED AGENT · FOUNDER
When you call, June answers.
AGENT NO. 00000000 · CERT IV BOOKKEEPING
June spent six years inside a mid-tier accounting firm, watching small operators get billed by the six-minute unit for work nobody explained to them. Neat Figures is the opposite of that: fixed figures, plain English, and books kept the way a good ledger has always been kept. Ruled, posted, balanced.
Fourteen years on, the studio holds thirty-eight monthly clients and a waiting list June refuses to rush. Small on purpose: every file gets the same Tuesday-morning attention, and nothing is ever handed to a stranger.
THE METHOD
Without the studio / with the studio.
Bookkeeping's oldest diagram is the T-account: debits on the left, credits on the right. It turns out to be a perfectly good way to show what changes when the books stop being your late-night job.
DR · WITHOUT
- Invoices at 10pm, reconciling never
- Quarterly panic, annual dread
- The accountant billing hours to fix the file
- Unopened envelopes with government crests
CR · WITH
- Feeds matched weekly, queries in one email
- Lodged on time, every quarter, by an agent
- Year-end already clean when it arrives
- The close pack, with coffee, on the 10th
BALANCE C/D = YOUR EVENINGS
THE STACK + THE SAFEGUARDS
Good tools, held to better habits.
The software does the busywork; a registered agent signs off on everything that matters. Every lodgement is checked against the bank position before it goes anywhere, and every client can see exactly what the studio can and cannot touch.
CERTIFIED: FERNBOOK · RECEIPTRAIL · SABLEPAY
- Read-only bank feeds, authorised at the bank's end
- No shared logins, ever, for anything
- Client data stored onshore, backed up nightly
- Professional indemnity cover held and current
- Every lodgement checked against the bank position first
