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Compliance and audit reviews
From mandates, best practice procedures or accreditations, to simply gaining peace of mind, our technical and industry experts have you covered.
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External audit
Strengthen business and stakeholder confidence with professionally verified results and insights.
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Financial reporting advisory
Deep expertise to help you navigate New Zealand’s constantly evolving regulatory environment.
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Corporate tax
Identify tax issues, risks and opportunities in your organisation, and implement strategies to improve your bottom line.
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Indirect tax
Stay on top of the indirect taxes that can impact your business at any given time.
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Individual tax
Preparing today to help you invest in tomorrow.
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Private business tax structuring
Find the best tax structure for your business.
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Tax disputes
In a dispute with Inland Revenue or facing an audit? Don’t go it alone.
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Research & development
R&D tax incentives are often underused and misunderstood – is your business maximising opportunities for making claims?
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Management reporting
You’re doing well, but could you be doing even better? Discover the power of management reporting.
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Financial reporting advisory
Deep expertise to help you navigate New Zealand’s constantly evolving regulatory environment.
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Succession planning
When it comes to a business strategy that’s as important as succession planning, you can’t afford to leave things to chance.
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Trust management
Fresh perspectives, practical solutions and flexible support for trusts and estate planning.
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Forecasting and budgeting
Prepare for every likely situation with robust budgeting and forecasting models.
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Outsourced accounting services
An extension of your team when you need us, so you can focus your time, energy and passion on your business.
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Setting up in New Zealand
Looking to set up a business in New Zealand? You’ve come to the right place.
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Policy reviews & development
Turn your risks into strengths with tailored policies that protect, guide and empower your business.
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Performance improvement
Every business has untapped potential. Unlock yours.
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Programme & project management
Successfully execute mission-critical changes to your organisation.
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Strategy
Make a choice about your vision and purpose, where you will play and how you will win – now and into the future.
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Risk
Manage risks with confidence to support your strategy.
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Cloud services
Leverage the cloud to keep your data safe, operate more efficiently, reduce costs and create a better experience for your employees and clients.
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Data analytics
Use your data to make better business decisions.
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IT assurance
Are your IT systems reliable, safe and compliant?
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Cyber resilience
As the benefits technology can deliver to your business increases, so too do the opportunities for cybercriminals.
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Virtual asset advisory
Helping you navigate the world of virtual currencies and decentralised financial systems.
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Virtual CSO
Security leadership and expertise when you need it.
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Debt advisory
Raise, refinance, restructure or manage debt to achieve the optimal funding structure for your organisation.
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Financial modelling
Understand the impact of your decisions before you make them.
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Raising finance
Access the best source of funding for your business with a sound business strategy and rigorous planning.
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Business valuations
Valuable decisions require valued insights.
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Complex and international services
Navigate the complexities of multi-jurisdictional insolvencies.
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Corporate insolvency
Achieve fair and orderly outcomes if your business – or part of it - is facing insolvency.
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Independent business review
Is your business viable today? Will it be viable tomorrow? Give your business a health check to find out.
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Litigation support
Straight forward advice from trusted advisors to support litigation and arbitration matters, expert determinations and other specialist hearings.
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Business valuations
Valuable decisions require valued insights.
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Forensic accounting & dispute advisory
Understand the true values, numbers and dollars at stake, as well as your obligations and rights to ensure value is preserved and complexities are managed.
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Expert witness
Our expert witnesses analyse, interpret, summarise and present complex financial and business-related issues which are understandable and properly supported.
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Investigation services
A fast and customised response when misconduct occurs in your business.

This flexible, scalable solution gives businesses access to high-level financial expertise without the overhead of hiring a full-time executive. Whether you're navigating rapid growth, preparing for investment, or simply want better financial clarity, a vCFO can help you make smarter decisions, faster.
vCFO services act as an extension of your team, bring a wealth of experience, strategic thinking and valuable industry contacts. They can support your business with operational essentials like reconciliations and cashflow management, facilitate connections and partnerships, and offer specialist advice and guidance for growth. As New Zealand’s economy lifts and moves into its next phase of growth, it’s an opportune time to tap into scalable expertise, so you’re ready to make the most of the upturn when it arrives.
Giving you the confidence to launch a new venture
Virtual CFO services can immediately deliver financial improvements and make an impact faster and more efficiently than a new employee.
Take for example a hospitality group trying to decide whether to open a new restaurant. The business owners simply didn’t have enough bandwidth to gauge if the new venture would be profitable. After reviewing the group’s financial information and business operations, the vCFO team implemented a robust financial model to provide certainty about the new venture’s success by providing detailed analysis about cashflow, seasonality, margins, wages and pricing.
With those numbers at the ready, suddenly the owners had the full financial tapestry laid out in front of them. They had a sense of both the fine detail and the bigger picture, which gave them the confidence to open their new restaurant.
A wealth of expertise helps you scale up smoothly
Not every business can afford to employ a fully-fledged in-house finance team with specialist financial expertise across a range of areas. Virtual CFO services give you access to a team of experts who can answer all your questions, from day-to-day accounting and taxes, to strategy, growth planning and risk mitigation.
For example, a business might have strong cashflow and no debt, and is poised to grow. But without a finance team in place, it will be difficult to scale up until better systems are in place. The business also makes an astonishing number of manual transactions, which is both time-consuming and prone to error.
Virtual CFO services can give businesses like this access to financial systems experts, who know exactly how to quickly implement automated solutions. Other experts can identify areas to streamline, and put tools in place to make it harder for human errors to creep in. And, if the business has no debt, it’s unlikely to be on the bank’s radar. A vCFO team’s contacts can help build a strong relationship with the bank and a way to upload bulk transactions to reduce their processing fees.
Not every successful business needs an in-house finance team
There are plenty of reasons why your business might not need in-house financial expertise. Often the business is too small to justify the cost of specialist employees, or your accounts team is excellent at operational accounting, but less skilled at high-level risk management, foresting, cashflow management and growth strategies.
In some cases, it’s because an organisation isn’t based in New Zealand. This is common with overseas-based businesses. A SaaS company, for instance, might have no employees on the ground in New Zealand, operating entirely through a reseller. But it still needs local expertise to navigate Kiwi taxes, communicate with Inland Revenue and be an extension of their team. A vCFO service can provide these services and recommend local partners to support the organisation with any operational matters. It’s impressive to see how successful ultra-lean operations like this can be with the right local support.
Giving you time to find the perfect hire
When a key person in your finance team has left and you need a stopgap solution while you find the right replacement, it can be tricky to get a well-suited hire for a particular role. You need time to wait for the right applicant, rather than rushing out and hiring the first person available.
Having a temporary vCFO in place can save a considerable amount of money. Consider a medical practice with a small finance team, where one employee resigned within a week of another’s retirement. This left them in a dilemma, with problems that needed sorting out immediately and no suitable hires on the horizon.
By covering the gap, virtual CFO services were able to take over the essential daily tasks and also provide high-level advice for growth. During this process, the vCFO team realised that with a new platform, the practice only needed one new employee instead of two. This eliminated a $120,000+ salary from the budget immediately. The practice had a clearer job description, and three months later it hired an excellent candidate, vetted by the vCFO team.
Navigating compliance, regulations, grants and funding
As your business grows, it will bump up against an increasing number of financial complexities. That might be tax compliance, or R&D credits, securing non-bank financing or even venture capital. If you are not yet ready to employ a finance team, vCFO services are your on-call experts as you navigate your way through these challenges.
The right advice will enable you to make better-informed decisions, manage risks, and run your business more smoothly. As New Zealand’s economy moves from a period of contraction into a new phase of growth, it’s the perfect time to prepare for expansion. Virtual CFO services could be an ideal way to get specialist expertise that can scale up alongside your business. That way, you’re perfectly positioned to capitalise on improving economic conditions moving into 2026.