Focus on Your Business. We'll Handle the Books
Comprehensive financial solutions tailored to your needs.
Childcare Bookkeeping. Solved.
Calculated Choice is led by Matthew Ahearn, a Finance Manager with over 13 years of specialised leadership experience dedicated entirely to the childcare sector.
Matthew spent over a decade childcare industry where he managed all financial operations, including budgeting, forecasting, and the end-to-end administration of payroll systems like FoundU, KeyPay, Ento, and Tanda. With deep expertise in Xero and a proven track record in financial compliance and process optimisation, we founded this service to bring that high-level, industry-specific knowledge directly to your centre.
We remove your bookkeeping burden, allowing you to focus completely on providing exceptional care for the children.
Services we provide
Providing a range of financial services, including preparing and auditing bookkeeping systems and payroll consulting.
Budgeting
Comprehensive budgeting services to help clients develop and manage their financial goals. We perform budgeting, cash flow management, and debt reduction. Our goal is to help you develop and manage financial goals, giving you the confidence to focus on quality care.
Internal KPIs
We work closely with you to ensure the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) you measure are perfectly aligned with your business objectives. We don't just present data, we provide the guidance you need to understand your reports and use them to make informed, confident decisions for growth.
Basic Bookkeeping
Reliable, accurate bookkeeping is the essential foundation for every successful business.
Our core bookkeeping services are designed to manage your daily financial operations with precision and expertise, freeing up your valuable time. Drawing on extensive experience with systems like Xero, QuickBooks, MYOB, and Reckon, we manage the full range of general financial duties. This includes meticulous general ledger management, timely bank reconciliations, efficient handling of accounts payable and receivable, and ensuring accurate cash flow management.
We simplify complex financial processes, implement internal controls, and prepare the clean financial data necessary for insightful reporting, allowing you to maintain clear visibility of your business's true financial position.
Payroll
Payroll in the childcare sector is complex, requiring deep knowledge of awards, Enterprise Bargaining Agreements (EBAs), rostering and time-sheeting systems.
Our end-to-end payroll services cover everything a centre needs: from Award and EBA interpretation and superannuation compliance to managing State Payroll Tax and ATO reporting.
We are skilled across a wide range of leading platforms, including specialized systems like FoundU, Employment Hero, Ento, and Tanda, as well as common accounting software such as Xero, QuickBooks, MYOB, and Reckon.
Whether you need full-cycle payroll administration, system implementation, or optimisation of your existing processes, we handle the entire burden to give you peace of mind.
And much more!
We can also provide a large range financial services tailored to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes. We offer bookkeeping, payroll, tax preparation, financial report preparation, consulting, and cash flow management services.