Stephenson Thorner, Ltd
Accounting in Wellington

We’ve put together some agreed service plans for you to choose from, depending on the life cycle and needs of your business. Not only covering the essentials, but also getting to understand your business and how it could grow. If the thought of looking at lots of numbers makes you want to throw yourself out of the nearest tall building, then you’ll be amazed by Spotlight reports and how you can understand what’s going on in your business. This is the go to monthly report to end all monthly reports! This also includes a gaining a detailed understanding of longer term personal goals and plans so that personal assets can remain safe and secure. We can work with you to create the right structure for you, using our own team members in conjunction with our network with specialists with knowledge in this area. We think this is such an under utilised but essential business tool that we include it as matter of course in our growth and strategy business packages. As business owners ourselves, we know how hard it can be to find the time to focus on strategic matters that will take the business forward. Being accountable to people from outside the organisation definitely makes things happen as they are meant to. A health check, a planning tool and a hard to refute assessment all rolled into one!. What would you do if you discovered that a business valuation could result in strategies and tactics to improve your business value, or make sure that you have the right amount of insurance cover, or could even give you comfort that you’ll live comfortably in your retirement?. We know that it can be a lonely life running a small business, and that at times problems can seem insurmountable. That’s where managing your personal assets, usually in a trust, makes sense. We’ve got a whole pile of trust management precedents that we can use to ensure that you properly document trust transactions and that you operate within the trust deed. We’ll review your personal financial situation on an annual basis and make sure that your future is kept safe. We’ll go over the 10 areas that you need to cover off in order to have a business that runs successfully when you’re not there and evaluate your current strengths and weaknesses in those areas. Then it’s a simple case of working out what strategies and tactics you can implement. Anne Stephenson and the team at STL have always been able to think outside the square. Stephenson Thorner have always put my business first and explain in every day language what is going on. I am a busy person and I have found since coming on board with STL I have more time for the important things like making sure that my business is running effectively