Actuate Accounting aims to deliver proactive and relevant advice to our clients. Our team is focused on providing support to our clients to empower them to achieve their business and personal goals.

We believe that action is the key to successful businesses and providing timely information to clients allows for better financial decisions. Our name derives from this goal. The definition of actuate is ‘to put into action’ or ‘motivate’.

This is the service we aim to provide to our clients.

Our People

Actuate Accounting was formed by our four directors as an alternative to the big accounting firms we had all worked in for most of our careers. Our belief in strong relationships with our clients and a client focused service offering was not valued in the big accounting firm model.

Rather than changing our approach, we started a firm where those goals could be cultivated. Our firm was founded by those clients who have joined us in making this move.

Ben Payne - Actuate Accounting
Ben is a Chartered Accountant and Tax Agent with 20 years’ experience in the business advisory space.  Ten years of this experience was with a large second tier firm and included a twelve month posting to New York City.  The balance of time has been spent in a small boutique firm and then within Actuate growing the firm to its current size.
 
Ben and his wife Katherine established Actuate Accounting in March 2010 with a view to providing business advisory services to privately owned businesses and individuals.  Ben works with professionals, in particular legal and medical, and helps them to implement structuring and planning strategies to increase their family wealth.
 
Ben is passionate about helping businesses grow.  He provides a holistic approach to business advisory and aims to fully understand your particular circumstances in order to best meet your business and personal goals.
 
Ben has a particular interest in Superannuation and Estate planning and encourages all of his clients to have a will in place!
 
Together he and Katherine have four children.  Ben enjoys travelling, and is a self-professed sports nut!
Katherine Payne - Actuate Accounting

Katherine has over 20 years experience in the accounting industry, spending the first 15 years in a Chartered Accounting environment before moving into a commercial role with a large Radiology business. Katherine has returned to Chartered accounting however has combined her two sets of experience and specialises in providing outsourced accounting solutions to all sizes of businesses.

Her passion is to work closely with businesses and people to alleviate them of all finance functions to allow them to focus on their core business. She performs the CFO role for many clients and provides timely management accounting reports on a monthly and quarterly basis to ensure that business owners are making informed financial and business decisions without the need for internal finance staff or bookkeepers.

Katherine has extensive experience in complex budgeting and preparing integrated 3 way forecasts (P&L, Balance sheet and cashflow) to present your business to banks and to the Board showing the complete financial position of your business.

David Paton - Actuate Accounting

David has over 15 years of experience in the accounting and finance industry working in chartered practice as well as in commercial business.

David works extensively with small to medium enterprises across varying industries with a primary goal of assisting his clients achieving their business and personal goals.

David aims to work with his clients on a “grass roots” level, providing advice which is practical and understandable to his clients whilst developing a strong working relationship.

David specialises in accounting and taxation compliance, budget and cashflow management, business structuring including investment purchases and disposals, succession planning and wealth creation.

Michael is a fully qualified Chartered Accountant with fourteen years’ experience in outsourced CFO services at public accounting firms. Michael has been part of the Actuate Accounting team for nine years. During his time he has provided services to a range of organisations from a variety of industries including Property, Education, Radiology, Retail and Not for Profit.

 

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