Catch-up bookkeeping
Visory brings books that have fallen behind back into line, from the last period that was properly reconciled: the backlog reconciled, the suspense account cleared, the coding corrected and your outstanding BAS prepared by a registered BAS agent. Then the same team keeps them current with ongoing monthly bookkeeping.
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What the catch-up covers
Six pieces of work, from the last period that was properly reconciled to today, set out in your proposal before anything starts. If it is not in the scope, we agree it with you first.
Every outstanding bank and card line matched to an invoice, a bill or a rule, and each account checked against its statement.
Suspense and uncoded transactions investigated and coded, or raised with you when only you can explain them. Miscoded and duplicate entries are corrected, GST treatment included.
Your payables and receivables ledgers brought into line with what you really owe and are owed, with stale and duplicated bills and invoices cleared.
Wages, PAYG withholding and super in the ledger reconciled to your payroll records, so the books and the pay runs agree.
Prepared from the reconciled books by Visory as a registered BAS agent, then reviewed and signed off, ready for lodgement.
A reconciled file handed into ongoing monthly bookkeeping, with your business rules written down so the backlog does not build up again.
And what is not included: income tax returns and audits. Once the books are current, the ongoing work is monthly bookkeeping, run by the same team on the same platform.
Why change
Books fall behind for ordinary reasons: a bookkeeper leaves, the business grows faster than the admin, one busy season runs into the next. The BAS deadlines keep arriving anyway, and every number you look at is months old.
Measured in your free financial health check, then set out and quoted in your proposal.
Your Bookkeeper runs the catch-up, and Delphi AI codes and checks the backlog in the background.
From reconciled books, reviewed and signed off before it reaches you.
The same team keeps the books current from then on.
Catching up once is useful. Staying current is the point.
One system, five services
Every Visory service runs the same way: a dedicated client team, Delphi AI under their oversight, and one platform where you can see all of it.
The same system runs bookkeeping, payroll, payables, receivables and Visory Insights. Only the work changes.
Bookkeeper How a catch-up runs
A catch-up runs as part of onboarding, from a scope agreed with you, so Visory starts your ongoing bookkeeping from reconciled numbers. Here is who does what.
Your Bookkeeper works the backlog and your Manager checks it before it reaches you.
The catch-up moves as fast as access and answers arrive, so it is all requested up front.
The catch-up starts from the last period that was properly reconciled, so every open BAS period and the current financial year are right. Earlier years are included only where a lodgement is still outstanding. Your free financial health check is where the backlog is measured.
The catch-up is scoped in your proposal as part of onboarding, in the Clean-up phase, and quoted before any work starts, so there are no surprise invoices. Once the books are current, one flat monthly fee for the agreed scope applies.
How long it takes depends on how far behind the books are and how quickly access and answers arrive. Your proposal sets it out, and the current month stays current while the backlog is worked.
The monthly rhythm
Once the backlog is clear, your books move into ongoing bookkeeping and run to the same rhythm: the work, the close and the brief every month, and the session on the cadence you agree. Here is March for Harbour Studio, end to end.
9:00 to 9:45am with your Business Performance Partner The brief and the session are Visory Insights, part of the same rhythm.
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Having Visory as a flexible partner to handle our day-to-day has meant real relief for our CFO. From an economies of scale perspective, the outsourced model is cost-effective compared to bringing someone in-house, and the handoff to our external accountant for tax has been noticeably smoother than it was before.
One month, end to end · Harbour Studio
Pricing
One flat monthly fee for the scope we agree. Nobody here bills by the hour.
What Visory runs each month is written down before you commit, so the fee is attached to a defined scope, not an estimate of hours.
No timesheets. The fee reflects the services you take and the volume of work in your business, and it only changes when the scope does.
Choose the services you need and see an estimated monthly fee on the pricing page, in your own time.
The finance function
A catch-up is the way in. Bookkeeping keeps the books current from then on, and the rest of the finance function runs on the same team and platform, added when you need it.
Every transaction coded and reconciled, month-end closed on schedule.
See how bookkeeping runsPay runs prepared, checked, and paid on time, every cycle.
See how payroll runsBills captured, checked against what’s already paid, and paid when you say so.
See accounts payableInvoices out on schedule, overdue accounts followed up in your name.
See accounts receivableCommon questions
What owners and managers ask when the books have fallen behind.
Yes, and it is common. Months behind or years, there is no judgement. The catch-up goes back to the last period that was properly reconciled, so every open BAS period and the current financial year are right. Earlier years are included only where a lodgement is still outstanding. Your free financial health check measures the backlog, and your proposal sets out the work before anything starts.
Access to your accounting file and bank feeds, statements for the months that are behind, the bills and receipts you can find, and someone who can answer questions about the transactions we cannot explain. Your Business Performance Partner asks for everything at the start, once.
Yes. As a registered BAS agent, Visory prepares your outstanding BAS from the reconciled books, and each one is reviewed and signed off before it reaches you.
It keeps moving. The backlog is worked while the current month stays current, so you do not finish the catch-up already behind again.
Your books move into ongoing monthly bookkeeping with the same team: every transaction coded and reconciled as it lands, and month-end closed on a timetable agreed with you.
It is the usual first step, and it is where the backlog is measured. A senior member of the Visory team analyses your financials and shows you where the books stand, and what it finds is scoped into your proposal and cleared as part of the catch-up. See the free financial health check.
The catch-up is scoped in your proposal as part of onboarding, in the Clean-up phase, and quoted before work starts, so there are no surprise invoices. Once the books are current, one flat monthly fee for the agreed scope applies. You can see an estimate of the monthly fee on the pricing page.
It depends on the backlog: how far behind the books are, and how quickly access and answers arrive. Your proposal sets it out before anything starts, and the current month stays current while the backlog is worked.
General information for Australian businesses, not financial advice.
Getting started
Three steps, each useful on its own. Each one is where you find out what the next is worth.
An obligation-free conversation about your goals and what you want the numbers to tell you.
Obligation-free
A senior member of the Visory team will analyse your financials and show you where your finance function can improve. It is free, and it is your own numbers.
Free · your own numbers
A clear commercial proposal for the scope we agree, on one flat monthly fee. No hourly billing. You decide whether to go ahead.
Flat monthly feeGet started
Start with a discovery call. We will listen first, measure the backlog in your free financial health check, then set out in your proposal what it takes to bring your books up to date.
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