Know your numbers. Grow your business.
Business coaching and advisory backed by the financial insight you need to make confident decisions and keep your business moving forward.
Beyond Your Numbers is a Christchurch-based, advisory-first accounting firm working with established small and medium-sized businesses throughout New Zealand. We help you step back, understand what is happening and decide what to do next.
Is your business making enough profit? Can you afford another staff member? Where is the cash going? How much should you pay yourself? What needs to change before you grow?
Our business coaching and advisory support give you the space, insight and accountability to work on the business. Then our bookkeeping, accounting and financial services make sure those decisions are built on reliable information.
WHO WE ARE
Business advisors who look beyond your numbers
As an advisory-first accounting firm, we help business owners understand what is happening, make stronger decisions and follow through with practical action. Our difference is that we do not look at your business in isolation from your numbers.
Your financial information can show you where profit is being made, cash is getting tight, whether pricing is working and what the business can realistically afford. We then combine those insights with practical coaching and advice around people, planning, leadership, systems and growth.
Think of us as part of your team. We get to know how your business works, explain the numbers without the accounting jargon, and give advice grounded in the way you operate.
HOW WE HELP
From numbers to better business decisions
Reliable numbers are important. What matters even more is knowing what they mean and what to do with them. Our advisory-first approach connects your financial information with the decisions you make about profit, pricing, cash flow, people, systems, and growth.
1. Understand
Get a clear picture of what is happening across your finances, people and business performance.
2. Decide
Identify what needs attention and make informed choices about profit, pricing, cash flow, people, systems and growth.
3. Act
Turn those decisions into practical priorities and clear actions.
4. Improve
Review progress, adjust when things change and keep building a stronger business over time.
OUR SERVICES
You might need someone to take the books off your hands. You might want better reports, help lifting profit, or an experienced financial mind beside you for bigger decisions. We take the time to understand what is happening and recommend the support that will make the biggest difference.
Your Business Coach and Advisor
Turn Insight into Action
Work through pricing, profit, people, systems, and growth with someone who understands both the business and the numbers behind it.
We give you space to think and clearer priorities, so you leave each meeting knowing what to focus on next.
Your Bookkeeper
Build a reliable financial picture
Keep your accounts current, your payroll running, and your Tax obligations under control.
Accurate, up-to-date records give you the foundation for useful reporting, advice and better decisions.
Not to mention giving you back time in your day.
Your Fractional Chief Financial Officer
Get senior financial thinking for bigger decisions
Get regular reports, forecasts, and experienced senior input without employing a full-time Chief Financial Officer.
We help you plan ahead, manage risk, and make larger decisions with a stronger financial view.
Your Accountant
Understand your results and plan ahead
Meet your accounting and tax obligations while gaining a clearer understanding of what the figures mean for the business.
We help you connect the annual numbers with the decisions you make throughout the year.
Our clients see us all year round, so nothing ever surprises them.
LIFT for Business
Build the skills and systems behind a stronger business
LIFT is a practical 12-month business coaching programme covering financial performance, cash flow, planning, marketing, leadership, team roles and business systems.
Meeting every 6 weeks in group workshops, you will build practical skills, apply what you learn within your own business and keep working towards measurable improvements.
This is a game changer.
The Growth Room
Step back, think clearly and keep making progress on your business
Step away from daily demands and focus on the future of your business with a small group of established business owners.
Across 12 months, monthly sessions and quarterly half-day workshops help you solve current challenges, work towards your goals, improve performance, and maintain accountability.
With your numbers as the compass, and a room of people who get it right beside you.
WHO WE HELP
Built for busy owners with plenty on their plate
Beyond Your Numbers works with business owners who want more than someone to simply process the numbers. Our clients want to understand their business, improve performance and make changes that create a stronger future. We work particularly closely with:
Trades & Construction
Understand job profitability, margins, labour, materials, pricing, cash flow and the wider performance of the business.
Professional Services
Gain clearer insight into profitability, capacity, pricing, team performance and the decisions required to grow sustainably.
Small & Medium Businesses
Get practical support across your finances, people, systems, leadership and growth as your business becomes more complex.
Explore Small & Medium Businesses
Leah and her team at Beyond Your Numbers are fantastic to deal with and they provide a very professional and trustworthy service, they have been a great asset to the AT Lowe Construction team.
Using Leah Keown's company Beyond Your Numbers over the last four years has been a cornerstone for the success of my company ADDO painting . Her and her team have been thorough and conscientious, always ready to help.
OUR CLIENTS
Real changes for real businesses
See how other owners have gained more control over their finances, made stronger decisions, and built businesses that work better for them.
I am tired of being an ostrichI want to know more Even if I don't do it myself, I need to take responsibility right! What do I need to know, and can you provide the training? This was a conversation with a client and we got to work straight away. The better you understand your business, the easier it will be to make more money. Management decisions rely on a sound understanding of the financial implications for a business, so I love it when the lightbulb goes off and it all makes sense. Don't be that ostrich, reach out for help...............You are not alone, and you don't know what you don't know........
Help, something needs to change!Phil is in the professional industry and there were leaks everywhere! Through our business coaching, Phil has more support in the business. knows the opportunities and bottlenecks and the business has now grown even with a product removed. His gross profit in one month increased by 95.31% and net profit from -($1,671) to $13,278 in one month! After 6 months the business was in a position to be sale-able after not being attractive for sale previous to this for over 18 months.
From chaos to confidenceTom was in financial chaos—uncertain how he would pay his GST, falling behind with supplier payments, and completely disconnected from his numbers. What he didn’t know was whether he was even making money on his jobs. Sound familiar? "Have you ever felt like the numbers are running you instead of you running them?" What is one business challenge that keeps you up at night?
NEXT STEP
Ready to move your business forward?
Tell us what is taking up your time, where the numbers feel unclear, and what you want your business to give you. We will listen, ask a few useful questions, and recommend a sensible place to start.
