jbee's Day to Day Accounting Services is a Christchurch-based bookkeeping business offering bookkeeping, payroll, management reporting, and creditors & debtors support using cloud-based software including Xero and Reckon. The team works alongside clients to handle day-to-day accounting transactions, cashflow and accountancy needs — including calling debtors directly to help get cashflow moving faster.
jbee's is an ICNZB Accredited Bookkeeping Business and a Xero Gold partner, and also works with software partners including Dear, Workflow Max, Hubdoc, ezyVet, Payroll Practitioners and Figured. The business is led by Director Jacqui de la Cour, who brings over 20 years of experience in accounts and business administration, alongside Financial Administrator Leeann Redman, both Xero accredited.
Beyond everyday bookkeeping, jbee's also offers Forensic Services through Jbees Forensic Accounting, drawing on 30 years of experience managing accounts to help businesses detect employee theft and establish systems to reduce the likelihood of it happening. The business describes itself as eco-friendly, using paperless filing and cloud-based solutions, and community-driven in its approach.
jbee's Day to Day Accounting Services runs its bookkeeping business around a bee-themed vision: being the "busy bees swarming around your business," working to optimise a company's potential while giving business owners their time back. Based in Christchurch, Canterbury, the business focuses on the everyday admin work that keeps a company running smoothly.
Using a suite of cloud-based software like Xero and Reckon, jbee's looks after bookkeeping, payroll, management reporting, and creditors and debtors — customising the level of support to what each client needs. One distinctive touch: the team will call up a client's debtors directly to help get cashflow moving faster, rather than leaving that admin task to the business owner. As an ICNZB Accredited Bookkeeping Business and Xero Gold partner, jbee's also works alongside software partners including Dear, Workflow Max, Hubdoc, ezyVet, Payroll Practitioners and Figured.
jbee's is led by Director Jacqui de la Cour — described on the site as the "Queen Bee" — who brings over 20 years of experience in accounts and business administration, covering mergers and acquisitions, start-ups, IRD matters, GST reconciliations and liquidation, and is Xero accredited. She's supported by Financial Administrator Leeann Redman, also Xero accredited, who focuses on delivering personal, professional and timely service to clients.
Beyond day-to-day bookkeeping, jbee's operates Jbees Forensic Accounting, helping businesses thoroughly analyse their accounts to detect signs of employee theft and establish systems to reduce the risk of it happening again. This service draws on 30 years of experience managing accounts, including direct experience catching individuals stealing from their employers. The site references real reported cases as examples of the scale employee theft can reach — including a $465,000 theft from a small Auckland business in 2024 and a $409,000 theft in Christchurch, also in 2024 — underlining why proactive detection and prevention systems matter.
jbee's describes itself as continuously seeking the most eco-friendly processes available, using paperless filing and cloud-based accounting solutions so clients reduce their own paper footprint too. The business also frames itself as community-driven, tying its own success to contributing back to the wider community.
Client testimonials on the site describe long relationships — several clients note working with jbee's for 5, 6, or even 10 years — praising the team's reliability, responsiveness, and ability to free up business owners' time to focus on running their operations rather than admin.
jbee's offers a free 15-minute chat for anyone wanting to find out how the team can help. The business can be reached at 0800 944 944 or 03 943 1949, by email at [email protected], or in person at 40 Leeds Street, Phillipstown, Christchurch 8011.