Xero: accounting transformed.
Xero and LINK Advisors are the winning combination: among Brisbane's highest-rated accounting firms, Platinum Partners, working with you in real time on the software you love.
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We love working with Xero, and you.
Xero lets us work in real time with you on your accounting. You understand your numbers year round, see the work we do as it happens, and make decisions on today's data instead of last year's. That is the whole point of a cloud accountant.
Live, shared numbers
You and your advisor look at the same real-time file. Advice happens in the moment - not months after the fact.
Certified, all of us
Every LINK accountant and bookkeeper is a Xero Certified Advisor. Hundreds of clients run Xero as the financial hub of their business with us.
The right app stack
Dext, Stripe, Square, job-costing and inventory tools - we recommend and connect the add-ons that fit your business, and skip the ones that don't.
Let Xero run your business, without the drama.
Automated bank feeds, one-click BAS data, payroll and super in the same place, invoicing that chases itself. We set it up so it just works - and we are one call away when it doesn't.
What this looks like in practice.
A wholesale distributor, $5.8m revenue, 22 staff, four years of history in a desktop ledger.
Case study · Xero migrationFour years of MYOB, two spreadsheets and a bookkeeper who had left.A migration where the opening balances were proved before anyone touched the new file. See what changed
The background
The business had outgrown a desktop file that lived on one machine, and the person who understood it had moved on. Two spreadsheets had grown up beside the ledger - one for stock, one for a commission scheme - and neither reconciled to it.
The challenge
The temptation in this situation is to convert the file and start. That is how a migration inherits four years of accumulated error and makes it permanent, because from the moment the new system is live nobody can tell which problems were carried and which were created. The stock spreadsheet disagreed with the ledger by a material amount that nobody had investigated. Aged payables carried entries from suppliers the business no longer used. And the commission scheme, run entirely outside the accounting system, had never been tested against payroll.
The approach
Prove the opening position first, migrate second. A conversion is the one moment when cleaning up costs almost nothing, because everything is being touched anyway.
How the work ran
Weeks 1–3
Reconcile before converting
Bank, stock, receivables and payables were reconciled in the old system and every unexplained difference was chased to a cause rather than written off. Dead supplier and customer records were retired. The stock variance turned out to be two years of unrecorded write-offs, which is a real trading result rather than a data problem, and was treated as one.
Weeks 4–6
Convert, with balances signed off
Conversion ran with an agreed conversion date and a signed opening trial balance, so the first day in Xero began from a position somebody had checked. Chart of accounts was rebuilt around how the business actually reports rather than mirrored from the old file - a mirrored chart of accounts carries the old file's blind spots into the new one.
Weeks 7–10
Retire the spreadsheets
Inventory moved into the ledger with a connected app chosen against how this business actually operates - order volume, whether it holds serial numbers, whether it needs assemblies - rather than against a general recommendation. The commission scheme moved into payroll, where it is now calculated, taxed and superannuated correctly.
What changed
- Opening balances
- carried over uncheckedreconciled and signed off
- Stock
- spreadsheet, unreconciledin the ledger, connected app
- Commission scheme
- outside the systemin payroll, correctly taxed
- Chart of accounts
- mirrored from the old filerebuilt around reporting
- Month-end
- whenever the spreadsheets agreedwithin five business days
A migration is the cheapest moment a business will ever have to fix its ledger, and the most expensive moment to skip it. Everything is already being touched once. Touching it properly costs weeks; touching it carelessly costs years.
A worked example, built from the pattern these engagements follow in xero migration. The business is composite and unnamed; the mechanics, the sequence and the order of work are the ones we use. Talk to us about your own numbers.
Frequently asked questions.
What does Xero Platinum Partner actually mean?
Platinum is Xero's top partner tier, based on the number of clients a firm runs on Xero and the certification of its team. In practice it means we live in Xero every day - every LINK advisor and bookkeeper is Xero certified.
I'm not on Xero yet. Can you move me across?
Yes - conversions from MYOB, QuickBooks, Reckon and most other platforms are handled by our dedicated setup team, usually with no disruption to your invoicing or payroll. See Xero setup and conversion.
Do I need to buy Xero through you?
No, but most clients do - partner billing usually costs the same or less, and it means one less bill to manage. Already subscribed? You can transfer your existing Xero subscription to us or simply invite us in as advisor.
Will you train me and my team?
Yes. Initial training is part of every setup, and your advisor keeps coaching you as your use of Xero grows - invoicing, payroll, apps and reporting.
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