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The 2026 Budget proposes a 30% minimum tax on family trust income

Bookkeeping quietly determines everything else in your business — BAS accuracy, payroll, super, your accounting bill and whether you actually know last month's profit. Here is the owner's process view: what good bookkeeping looks like week by week, and the warning signs yours needs rescuing.

Most accounting firms won't publish their prices. We will. Here are the typical 2026 ranges for small business accounting in Australia — individual and company returns, BAS, bookkeeping, payroll and Virtual CFO retainers — plus the habits that determine whether you pay the bottom of the range or the top.

Capped prices, GST-free rules that depend on a written service agreement, the SCHADS award and Commission audits — NDIS accounting is nothing like generic small-business accounting. Here is what an NDIS-savvy Sydney accountant should be checking for you, from GST treatment to profitability per support hour.

Community pharmacy is the most regulated small business in Australia — Canberra sets your prices, 60-day dispensing reshaped your fees, stock is your biggest margin leak and NSW law restricts who can own you at all. A pharmacy accountant's guide to PBS revenue, margins, ownership structures and exits.

Your biggest customer is Services Australia, your biggest cost is set by legislated ratios, your fees are GST-free and your centre is valued per licensed place. Childcare is one of the most unusual business models in Australia — here is how a childcare-specialist accountant reads the numbers.

Construction is the industry where profitable businesses go broke. WIP that makes your P&L lie, retentions locked up for two years, subbies who are legally employees, TPAR data-matching and a tax calendar that never aligns with progress claims. A construction accountant's guide for Sydney builders.

A startup accountant is not just a small business accountant who happens to work with tech companies. The work is different — R&D tax incentive claims, ESS share schemes, runway modelling, cap table maintenance, founder vesting. Here's what to look for.

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