Specialist Rural Services

Expert farm succession planning advice from Christchurch

Farm specialists

A wide range of farm accounting services

With the majority of R J Preston Ltd's client base being farmers, you can be assured that farm accounting services are a speciality. Our Christchurch-based tax accountants acknowledge the unpredictable nature of farming and realise it is vastly different from other businesses. As a farmer, your industry is understood; as a business owner, every effort is made to get to know you personally.

You can take advantage of the following farm accounting services offered by our chartered accountants:

  • Estate and succession planning
  • Financial planning
  • Farm sales and purchases
  • Farm budgeting and cashflow
  • Ownership structures
  • Seasonal planning
  • Benchmarking
  • Budgeting and cashflow reports
  • Budget versus actual numbers
  • Asset protection
  • Tax minimisation
  • Business proposals
  • Periodic reporting
  • Computer support

If you are looking for a small business accounting firm in Christchurch willing to go the extra mile and understand farming, contact R J Preston Ltd today.

Farm accounting services
Software

Software support

Do you feel confident using accounting tools designed to simplify your business? The accountants at R J Preston Ltd understand it can be a daunting process learning to use new software. Our staff are here to talk you through your accounting tools.

Farm Focus

Farm Focus provides financial software for better farm management. This software offers budgeting, livestock and production management tools tailored to your specific farm type.

MYOB

MYOB provides a range of products and services to help you manage your business, based either in the cloud or on desktop software. MYOB's most popular products simplify and help with accounting, payroll, job management and tax solutions.

Xero

Xero deals with all accounting requirements including invoicing, inventory, payroll, bank reconciliation, pay bills, expense claims, reports, GST returns and fixed assets.

Farmax

Farmax is used to model and monitor your farm system.

Figured

Figured is a complete livestock, dairy and crop budgeting, production tracking, and forecasting tool that gives you accurate data in one place, in real time.

PaySauce

PaySauce — the only payroll solution built around farming. Payroll calculations, payday filing, and timesheets, all in one simple app for your mobile and desktop.

Spotlight Reporting

Spotlight Reporting: integrated reporting and forecasting that allows you to create insights to inform better business outcomes.

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Your business, our values

Accounting can be the difference between success and failure. We believe you need to feel confident in your accountant, enabling you to form a strong working relationship that will benefit your business. That is why R J Preston Ltd offers a free consultation — giving us both the opportunity to get to know one another and understand how your business works.

Talk to your rural accounting specialists

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