Advisory Accountants Ltd

Highly recommended, team is friendly, helpful, knowledgeable, approachable & fantastic. They are very responsive and extremely thoughtful about my business. Can't recommend them highly enough
Apr 20th, 2020

Sep 26th, 2018

Dec 14th, 2017

I had the pleasure of working with Advisory Accountants for my personal and business accounting needs, and I must say that they are one of the most reliable and professional accounting firms in Porirua. From the moment I walked into their office, I was greeted by their friendly and helpful staff who were ready to assist me with any inquiries I had. The team at Advisory Accountants is highly knowledgeable and experienced in various accounting services, including tax preparation, financial planning, bookkeeping, and more. They provided me with tailored solutions that met my specific requirements and helped me achieve my financial goals. What I appreciated the most about my experience with Advisory Accountants was their commitment to providing exceptional customer service. They were always prompt in responding to my emails and phone calls, and they were always happy to answer my questions. Overall, I highly recommend Advisory Accountants to anyone looking for a reliable and trustworthy accounting firm in Porirua. They offer a wide range of services at competitive prices and are dedicated to helping their clients succeed. Thank you, Advisory Accountants, for your excellent service!
Mar 23rd, 2023

I cannot recommend Advisory Accountants. Their work has been slapdash and without attention to detail. Namely, there have been a few of what I consider serious (and expensive) mistakes since we worked together, including me being instructed by them in my end of year financials to pay an amount of provisional tax in May 2022 to IRD that was not correct or owing. IRD sent the money back and said I didnt owe it. I queried this with Advisory Accountants by email and there was no explanation forthcoming from a staff member (Patricia) apart from "you don't owe it". I did not find this reassuring. They also set me up with a Xero accounting program I didn't know how to use. We were told to link the feeds to the bank account and followed the instructions given, but this hadn't worked and it wasn't obvious to us. They didn't notice this state of affairs over a long period of time so a lot of my money (almost $1500) was wasted on a subscription that wasn't actually working. I feel it was negligent that they didn't do anything to oversee the set up of an app that they sold me and seemed surprised when it came to light that it was not actually functioning. In addition, the fees they wanted to charge me (and have been charging me in the past) for accounting were at least 60% higher than other comparable firms...I ended our work together recently and have instructed another accountant who is charging less than half of what Advisory accountants have been charging me, for exactly the same service. Other accountants have quoted me similar. I can't account for the higher fee they are charging because there's nothing they offered that the other accountants are not. It is very disappointing to know I have been overcharged by so much for what has been a pretty poor service, on top of the wasted money on the Xero app. Altogether I've spent around $3800 on the unused app and the overcharging, based on what I am now being charged by my new accountant. Update 18th Feb 2023: Advisory accountants sent me multiple emails and made phone calls threatening to take me to court "for defamation" if I do not remove this online review. I stand by what I wrote above as accurate and true, and have written evidence to prove it. Their attempt to silence my genuine review and experience, and the harassment since then has turned an already bad experience with this business into a terrible one.
Mar 21st, 2023