WE ARE LEADING FARMING SPECIALISTS

ICL Chartered Accountants have been providing specialist advice to NZ and International clients, farming, and local/rural communities for over 70 years. We give our clients not only their numbers but the advice to help them grow and achieve their goals. Within our own business we are progressive and innovative. Our values are innovation, accountability, teamwork, integrity, and commitment to our clients and community. It’s these values that drive not only how we think and operate, but the way we work. We foster relationships, so we understand your needs to help you reach the right outcomes.

We have offices in Alexandra and Ranfurly and are based in Winton and Cheviot. We offer our clients high quality accounting and business advisory services that can be tailored to your requirements.

We offer not only accounting/ advisory services but business support services, including HR, Payroll and IT.

Business Advisory

We can support and assist with critical decisions and help to step you through the financial process. From whether to sell or buy property, wanting to set up or close a business, or when it’s time to put up your feet and retire. Through due diligence and meetings, we can help to shape a new path for your future.

- Business Growth

- Business set up or sale

- Buying and selling property

- Investment Decisions

- Retirement Planning

- Financial Structuring

- Debt Management

- Succession Planning

- Business Restructuring

- Forestry and Emission Trading Scheme (carbon credits)

- Business Planning - Governance, processes and systems

Accounting and Tax

Let us keep you on track with tax and legislative requirements. We can make sure you don’t overlook the important dates and deadlines and that you always comply by helping you to keep on top of your tax payments, producing your annual accounts and keeping you up to date with legislative changes.

- Financial Statements

- Annual Accounts

- Tax Returns

- GST or Goods and Services Tax

- Provisional Tax

- Resident Withholding Tax

- Tax Exemptions or Certificates

- Working for Families Tax Credits

- ACC

Business Reporting and Budgets

We encourage our clients to think about the big picture and to be prepared. We do this through providing budgets and cash forecasts to help them make informed decisions on what can be spent or where cuts might be needed. It is this information that helps to take a business forward and smooth the cashflow.

- Cashflow Reporting

- Forecast Reporting

- Monthly Management Reporting

- Budgets

- Tax Calendars

Budgets are a staple item for banks today when reviewing or considering loans.

Benchmarking and Farm Survey

Benchmarking reports can quickly determine the health of your business by measuring and comparing your financial and/or production performance to others within the same sector. Annually we prepare and provide our clients with the Farm Survey – this benchmarking data provides performance indicators to other comparative properties.

Accounting Software

Looking for a software to help you manage your books and compliance?

We offer our clients advice on choosing the right accounting software for their business.We look at your business needs and help find the solution that is going to give you the best result and value for money.

We also support our clients if they need training to ensure they can fully utilise the software and tools available.

We are certified in and preferred partners with:

- MYOB

- XERO

- Figured

- Farm Focus

People ConsultingHR and Payroll

Our HR services are designed to help you get the best out of your people and teams through:

- Recruiting the right people

- Up to date employment agreements

- Advice on tricky employment situations

- Helping to manage performance issues

- Policies and procedures

- HR health checks

- Payroll and Remuneration

We

currently

run the pay for over 500+ employees!

Go paperless with our Smart Payroll service that offers electronic timesheets where employees can record their time and leave using their mobile phones. We also take care of all your payday filing and provide you with the right reports to help your run your business.

Systems Consulting - IT

Smart business practices come from having the right technology and understanding how to use it. When the right technology is used correctly it can help do the heavy lifting.

Whether it’s hardware, software, security, training, virus protection or networks our IT specialist is able to assist for a faster more efficient business.

Administration and Company Secretarial Services

Let us file, form, transfer, change or prepare documents for:

- Companies (including overseas)

- Trusts

- Incorporations

- Deeds

- Gifting

- Minutes

- Share Transfers

- Resolutions

From incorporating a company, deeds of retirement, change of directors, or company annual returns our team of administrators can help.

We also offer speciality services in:

- Company Secretarial/Minute taking

- Invoicing and Statement services for clients (Accounts Payable/ Receivable)

- Stock takes.