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IT support for Melbourne accountants.

You're a 5–50 person practice running Xero, MYOB and Class on top of M365, with a TPB code of conduct hanging over your head and a peak season that can't afford a single day of downtime. We do the IT layer underneath all of it.

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Recommended for accountants

Standard + peak-season DR

$119 / user / mo · GST inc.

  • M365 backup + tested restores
  • Tax-season change freeze July–Oct
  • DMARC enforcement against impersonation
  • Annual cyber-insurance evidence pack

The five problems specific to accounting practices

We've already done the homework on your tax-week stack.

01

Xero, MYOB, Class, BGL, Reckon — all cloud-first

Your stack is SaaS-only, but the M365 layer underneath drives access, MFA, and SSO. Misconfigure Conditional Access and partners can't open Xero in BAS week. We do that layer.

02

Tax season DR — the wrong week to lose data

July through October your team works 12-hour days. We schedule restore drills outside peak, and put any change windows on the calendar in writing.

03

TPB & ATO security expectations

Tax Practitioners Board and ATO Online Services for Agents both expect MFA, identified user access, and incident response capability. Standard plan onwards covers all three with documented evidence.

04

Email is how the ATO contacts you · and how scammers spoof you

Australian accounting practices are a top target for invoice fraud and impersonation. DMARC enforcement, phishing-resistant MFA, and tested mailbox backup close the loop.

05

Audit firm relationships need clean evidence

When your audit firm asks for the cyber controls evidence, we hand back a bound pack: MFA coverage, patch latency, backup test results, admin access reviews. Every quarter or annually.

Compliance overlay · who expects what

Four regulators. One stack of evidence.

Tax Practitioners Board

Code of Professional Conduct item 12 (confidentiality), reasonable security of client data, breach reporting obligations.
MFA across tenant · DMARC reject · M365 immutable backup.

OAIC · Privacy Act 1988

Notifiable Data Breaches scheme — eligible data breach response within 30 days. Includes TFNs and bank details.
NDB runbook · breach response retainer · annual tabletop.

Australian Taxation Office

Online Services for Agents — strong identification, MFA on every agent account, no shared logins.
Conditional Access policy · privileged role review · joiner/leaver workflow.

Cyber-insurance underwriters

Documented Essential 8 controls, prior-incident disclosure, third-party access matrix.
Annual evidence pack · Secure+ plan inclusion.

Accountant FAQ

Common objections.

We use Xero / MYOB / Class — do you do those?
Yes — we manage the M365 + identity layer underneath them. Account creation, MFA, conditional access, single sign-on where supported, and incident escalation when something goes wrong. Application-level configuration of the practice tools themselves is usually best handled by the vendor or specialist consultant; we coordinate with them where needed.
Can you keep our environment quiet during tax season?
Yes. Standard practice: change freeze from 1 July to 31 October. We deploy patches in the lower-risk window outside peak. Any urgent security patches go through an explicit "do this now or wait" decision with the partner. We schedule the quarterly restore drill in May or November.
How do you handle audit firm requests for evidence?
We maintain a quarterly evidence pack — MFA coverage by user, patching SLA compliance, backup restore test results, admin access reviews, incidents and resolutions. When the audit firm asks, we send the pack. Standard plan generates this annually; Secure+ generates it quarterly.
We're a 5-partner firm with 8 staff. Are we too small?
No. Roughly 40% of our pipeline is 5–25 staff accounting and tax practices. The Essential plan ($79/user/mo) covers a 5–10 person practice; Standard ($119) is the typical fit for 10–25.
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