Slate Accounts specialise across many industries – those listed below and many more!
With a highly experienced team on your side, we’ll ask all the right questions to learn about your business quickly and professionally and hit the ground running. Slate’s clients typically turnover between $2 and $50 million and require a dedicated accounts team.
We have a growing portfolio of architects and designers, from interior to web. We can help to improve:
- Project, schedule, time and task management
- Stage and project value based invoicing
- Practice management software for time and cost tracking, invoicing and documentation
Often larger businesses that have a bigger accounts workload and need someone onsite, Slate Accounts offer a team approach with mixed skills and credentials to handle every task – from data entry to more complex accounting and reporting. We can also own and manage the finance function for medium-sized corporate clients supporting management teams with:
- The right level of professionalism required for dealing with clients
- A high level of performance
Slate Accounts supports fashion industry clients with expertise in a range of functions specific to the industry:
- Retail point of sale set-up, training and maintenance
- Ecommerce and order fulfilment
- Inventory control, stock takes and stock management
- Foreign currency purchasing and importing
- Detailed sales and management reporting
- Payroll for retail, warehouse and office personnel
- Wholesale sales invoicing and collections
We work with businesses across a range of health and allied fields to assist with:
- Practice management and billing systems and merchant facilities
- Booking and practice management systems
- Payroll for practice staff and contractors
- Partner and contractor profit and income sharing arrangements
- General practice accounting and financial reporting
Slate Accounts help hospitality businesses to streamline their systems and improve profitability using:
- Point of sale software and sales reporting
- Food and beverage cost and margin reporting
- Payroll, HR issues and staff cost reporting, by venue and area
- Electronic rostering and time and attendance systems, linked to payroll
- High volume supplier purchasing and accounts payable management and reconciliations
- Automated supplier invoice processing and data entry.
Slate Accounts manages the accounts function for childcare providers and kindergartens, both community and private run. We assist treasurers and management with finance related issues specific to the childcare industry, including:
- Preparing the accounts in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards to meet the requirements of the Incorporated Associations Reform Act
- DEECD funding and reporting requirements
- CCMS invoicing and child care benefit management
- Parent invoicing and collections
- Electronic and cloud systems to streamline member / parent applications and registers
- Facilitating the annual audit or review
- Financial and management reporting for committees and presenting to AGMs
- Treasurer handover and knowledge transfer
- Outsourced payroll management through ADP Payroll Solutions
- Budget preparation and variance reporting
- Portable leave entitlements and liability recording.
Slate Accounts assists associations and non-for-profits with their bookkeeping and financial management practices, including:
- Preparing the accounts in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards to meet the requirements of the Incorporated Associations Reform Act
- Electronic and cloud systems to streamline member applications, registers and membership fee collection
- Event management, including ticketing, budgeting, accounting and financial reporting
- Chapter-based budgeting and reporting
- Expense claims and disbursements
- Facilitating the annual audit or review
- Committee and AGM reporting
- Treasurer handover and knowledge transfer
Slate Accounts knows its own industry best of all. We’re experts in systems and processes to help professional services firms manage their finances, including:
- Time sheets and time billing
- Matter and project profitability tracking
- Systems for faster invoicing and collections
- Expense claiming and reimbursable management
- Cash flow forecasting and management
- Work-in-Progress reporting and dashboards
- Staff utilisation and profitability reporting.
Today’s successful retailers are clever cross-channel marketers with streamlined fulfilment systems to ensure their customers keep coming back. Slate Accounts works with some of the best in the business and helps retail clients manage a range of finance related tasks and processes, including:
- Retail point of sale set-up, training and maintenance
- EBay, Amazon and web-store ecommerce and fulfilment systems
- Inventory control and management
- Centralised, multi-channel inventory and order management systems bridging eBay, web-store and physical retail presences
- High-volume accounts payable management and reconciliations, automated supplier invoice processing and data entry
- Foreign currency purchasing and importing
- Channel and product category profitability and margin reporting and dashboards
- Wholesale sales invoicing and collections.