Outside Accounting is a Wellington-based firm of Chartered Accountants and Xero Platinum Partners, offering accounting, tax and business advisory services to New Zealand SMEs. The team describes itself as more than stereotypical accountants, focused on getting to know what makes a business tick, learning owners' goals, and helping streamline the back end of their operations.
The firm works across a range of industries, with dedicated services for property, hospitality, trade, healthcare, architecture, law firm, and plumbing businesses. Outside Accounting operates on a no-contracts, no-fine-print basis, and offers a complimentary, obligation-free consultation to new clients.
Based at Level 1/8 Tennyson Street in Te Aro, Wellington, the team positions itself around three values: trust, enthusiasm, and continuous development — aiming to help clients' businesses become better than yesterday through improved skills, processes and systems.
Outside Accounting is a Wellington firm that pitches itself as, in its own words, "more than your stereotypical accountants." Based at Level 1/8 Tennyson Street in Te Aro, the team is made up of certified Chartered Accountants and Xero Platinum Partners who focus their energy on New Zealand's small and medium-sized businesses.
Rather than treating accounting as a purely numbers-in, numbers-out exercise, Outside Accounting says its goal is to get down to what actually makes a client's business tick — understanding the owner's vision, streamlining processes, and building a wider understanding of how the back end of the business runs. The firm frames this as "engineering time and means," so business owners can spend more time on the parts of the business they actually love.
One of the clearer signals of how Outside Accounting operates is its industry-specific service pages: dedicated accounting support for property businesses, hospitality operators, trade businesses, healthcare providers (including doctors), architects, law firms, and plumbing businesses. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, each of these areas gets its own focus, suggesting the firm has built up familiarity with the particular financial patterns and pressures each industry faces.
Outside Accounting is explicit about how it wants to work with clients: no contracts, no fine print, just a plan built around the business. New clients are offered a complimentary, obligation-free consultation as a starting point, rather than being locked into an engagement upfront.
The firm describes its people as "young, fresh, eager minds" who are certified Chartered Accountants and Xero Platinum Partners. Three values run through how the team talks about its work: trust — taking pride in getting the job done to a high standard, efficiently, every time; enthusiasm — a genuine interest in the work that the firm says shows through in how it operates; and development — a commitment to continuous improvement, both for the firm's own team and for the businesses it works with, aiming to make clients "better than yesterday" through improved skills, processes and systems.
Beyond client work, Outside Accounting runs a blog called "You Oughta Know," including an Owner Insights section, alongside a published FAQ page. The firm is active on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, and has been featured on a Wellington accountants ranking site. A newsletter subscription option is also available on the website for those who want ongoing updates.
Outside Accounting can be reached by phone on 04 889 2975 or by email at [email protected], with its office located at Level 1/8 Tennyson Street, Te Aro, Wellington. The firm invites prospective clients to get in touch for a free, obligation-free consultation to discuss what a working relationship might look like — with the emphasis throughout on flexibility around methods, while staying stubborn about the goals a business is trying to reach.