About Us
Edward Christian & Co is an established Chartered Accounting Practice based in Petone, Wellington. The founding principal and director of Edward Christian & Co is Eddie Jansen.
The key focus of Edward Christian & Co is working with clients to develop and grow their business in a collaborative way, working with their clients, in a commercial advisory partnership role. It is our desire to work alongside you every step of the way.
Our aim is to maintain a personalised service, designed for your business requirements from the outset, with continuous development according to business growth and change. Edward Christian & Co aims to provide the services that you need to succeed in business.
The fundamental requirements of Income Tax, GST, PAYE, Kiwi Saver and all other compliance requirements form the core of our services, and we are happy to discuss this with you.
Advisory
During his time with some of the largest chartered accounting firms in New Zealand Eddie noted that many business owners were reluctant to seek commercial or accounting advice from their accountant or business advisor for a number of reasons. On many occasions this reluctance stemmed from a lack of relationship and confidence in their accountant, and the fact that their advisor actually did not understand their business - the majority of accountants were not proactive and timely around their service offering and genuinely had a reluctance to discuss wider commercial advice with their clients. They preferred the safe option of being compliance advisors as opposed to business advisors with the experience and confidence to provide guidance as to the future direction of the business, even if that only meant being a sounding board for the business owner.
The reality is that ongoing business advice must be sourced when required, in some ongoing manner, for the benefit of the business and it’s owner/s. The input of your accountant is independent and enables a more robust decision making process to be attained. To obtain the maximum benefit from the relationship between the business operator and their advisor it is critical that a level of communication occurs, at an agreed level, so that the advisor obtains a working understanding of the business.
However valid the reasons for obtaining business advice it has been our experience many business owners have been, and still are, delaying the decision to seek advice from their accountants, subsequently paying a price for not doing so.
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