Like all businesses we have to maintain our cashflow to meet our ongoing commitments. Our terms include:
Any documents which we are specifically engaged to prepare, together with any original documents provided by yourselves, will be your property. Any other documents brought into existence by us including working papers, draft financial statements and copies of BAS returns, will remain the property of Zer0books.com Pty Ltd at all times.
Your Xero file, and the information contained therein, is the property of Zer0books.com Pty Ltd. Should you wish to remove us from the file or transfer the file to another financial advisor we will require all outstanding amounts to be paid in full.
A copy of the Zer0books.com Pty Ltd current privacy policy is available on our web site, www.zerobooks.com/privacy-policy
Should your organisation pay employees (either currently or in the future), please note that Zer0books.com Pty Ltd will assist you with the accounting aspects of payroll. It will be your responsibility to ensure that employee entitlements (wage, leave etc) meet all applicable awards.
This proposal is for the set up of the Xero software and operations only. We will review potential add-ons as part of the Xero establishment to ensure that the Xero software is set up with the future integration in mind.
As part of a mutual business relationship there are responsibilities for each party. In our relationship your responsibilities are:
Failure to adhere to these responsibilities will result in extra work for us, and extra fees for you charged at our normal hourly rates.
The responsibility for the maintenance of your accounting and internal control systems rests with you, including the protection of and prevention against fraud.
Our firm may from time to time use the services of third party contractors to perform some of the services we are engaged to perform for you. Each client in the Group hereby authorises us to disclose information relating to that client’s affairs to all such third party contractors as we may choose to engage to perform such work. Where we use the services of third party contractors, we are nevertheless responsible for the conduct and activities of those contractors and for the delivery of the services we are engaged to perform for you.
Where the client is a ‘company, trustee, trust or a super fund’, the directors and /or trustees of the client are personally responsible for the company’s, trustee’s, trust’s and /or super fund’s accounting fees in the case of a debt due and payable. By signing this document, the directors or trustees (“Guarantors”) agree to guarantee payment of all accounts payable by the client to Zer0books.com Pty Ltd. The Guarantors shall also indemnify us against all loss, damage, expense, costs, including legal costs and claims we may incur due to any default by the client in connection with this agreement or resulting from any default by the Guarantor under this document. We may take action against the Guarantor without taking action against the client and can treat the Guarantor as principal debtor. The Guarantor waives any rights it has as surety.
The CPA Australia Limited periodically reviews files of its members to ensure an expectable standard of work is being maintained. You hereby consent for your files and that of your associated entities being made available to a reviewer from the society, on the understanding that total confidentiality is maintained.
This letter will serve as an ongoing outline of our business relationship unless there is a change in service requirements of your accounting needs.
Whilst in a perfect world we would like to keep our fees fixed for a long term, the fact is that a number of variables affect our business costs and the costs of the services we provide to your business. Due to these variable inputs our fixed price arrangements are reviewed at the end of each anniversary year and may be amended within the year taking into account, but not limited to, the following: