Tutbury & Associates is a Tauranga-based accounting practice offering a comprehensive range of accountancy, financial and business planning services. Kelly Tutbury and her team of accountants and chartered accountants have a passion for guiding and supporting small to medium-sized businesses through the myriad of accounting compliance, and most of all, showing them how to save time and money by using simple cloud-based technologies to keep up-to-date with their business accounts.
How did you get into accounting?
Accounting runs in my family as both my mother and my grandfather were accountants. Wanting to be a bit of a rebel, I had sworn I would never become an accountant – despite all career advice tests confirming I was best suited to accounting!
As life would have it, I ended up working for Tutbury Associates in 2007 to help out my mum Sheryl, and then became pregnant with my first child. When Sheryl got sick and couldn’t work anymore, we had to make the decision to sell the business. This meant selling to a third party, unless I chose to step up and buy it. After seeking advice and doing some deep soul searching, I decided buying the business was the best option. So, here I am five years later, still in the local community, growing steadily and loving it!
How is Tutbury’s different to other accounting firms?
Most importantly, we are a dedicated, friendly team of accountants and chartered accountants who have a great sense of humour and like to have a laugh. Clients pick up that vibe as soon as they walk into our office and feel instantly at ease. We also pride ourselves with keeping up-to-date with technology, and have been using Xero online accounting software for the last 12 years. We love showing our clients how integrated cloud-based systems can save them so much time, money and stress.
What really differentiates Tutbury’s is that we make time to sit down with our clients to talk broadly about their business – not just about accounting or compliance matters but any business issue. We take time to answer their questions, help them get to grips with new technologies and walk them through anything they don’t understand. Visiting your accountant is not supposed to be scary or intimidating, and we want clients to feel they can call us or drop in at any time for a chat. At the same time, your accountant should be the eyes and ears of what’s happening in the business sector and we make sure we keep clients regularly updated on sector news.
Who are your clients?
Our clients range from sole operators to large SMEs, and while many are local, our cloud-based systems allow us to work with clients throughout New Zealand and even in other countries. We frequently work with clients starting up businesses from scratch, many of whom have no business experience at all. We work intensively with all our start-up clients for the first 6-12 months to help them get on the right track from the very beginning. The most successful of these clients all have business plans in place and review them regularly.
What other services do you offer?
We offer business advisory services and can help clients with business planning, financial planning, payroll, cashflow management, tax management, quarterly coaching and so on. Our objective is to help them achieve their goals and, as a business advisor, I can bring a fresh perspective, vision and new ideas to their business that they might never have considered before. By working through an extensive evaluation of their business, I can help clients determine where their strengths lie as well as the areas they need to work on. I ensure they have someone they can confide in, brainstorm new ideas with and trust to give consistent, reliable advice to meet their business needs.
We also host a series of regular seminars on a variety of accounting and financial topics. These seminars are designed to help people get their head around complicated finance issues in a simple and easy-to-understand manner, so they can be better informed in their business decision making. And the best part is, these seminars are free to attend. Keep an eye on our Facebook page, or ask to sign up to our free client newsletter. You can still attend seminars even if you’re not a client.
To find out more about Tutbury’s services, please contact the team for a free initial consultation. If you are from out of town, or live offshore, they offer meetings over zoom or skype.
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Tutbury & Associates is committed to giving back to our community. Through Social Giving, we are proud to support the amazing work of children’s charity KidsCan.
