{"id":60,"date":"2022-02-08T02:29:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T02:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homesteadag.com.au\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2025-02-25T04:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T04:17:39","slug":"creating-meaningful-data-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/homesteadag.com.au\/","title":{"rendered":"Management accounting. For farmers."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light hestia-clear-top-padding\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-white-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" id=\"why-homestead-ag\" style=\"color:#3c4858\">Why Homestead Ag?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:9px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To create meaningful accounting data for farmers. Our aim is to help farmers manage their &#8216;business&#8217; as well as their farming. This can mean helping with your farm cashbook, helping you to create and use a farm budget, consulting with you on your big decisions, or supporting you with regular farm management analysis. Homestead Ag works with our agricultural clients to ensure they are using the right tools, creating meaningful data for their farm business, and using this data to take action to improve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Live and meaningful management accounting for farms. We understand and specialise in accounting for Australian agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns container is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" id=\"choosing-the-right-tools\" style=\"color:#3c4858;font-size:18px\">Choosing the right tools<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#999999;font-size:14px\">Is your bookkeeping system up to date? How much is automated? Are all of your invoices captured in one place? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#999999;font-size:14px\">The right tools should make your time in the office easier, faster and less frustrating. Using the right tools for you, and having the training and support to use them correctly, can increase the efficiency of your operation &#8211; and free up your time for more important things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" id=\"creating-meaningful-data\" style=\"color:#3c4858;font-size:18px\">Creating meaningful data<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#999999;font-size:14px\">What does your data tell you? If you&#8217;re just looking at the numbers for your BAS, then you&#8217;re missing out! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#999999;font-size:14px\">Is your farm budget helping tell you what&#8217;s working and what you need to change? Farm accounting is so much more than tax! Meaningful data can help you build your farm, answer your questions, and plan the future &#8211; including your map to get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" id=\"taking-action\" style=\"color:#3c4858;font-size:18px\">Taking action<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#999999;font-size:14px\">The ATO has the BAS and the bank has the budget, so the job&#8217;s done, right? Not even close! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#999999;font-size:14px\">Regularly comparing real time actual results to budgeted expectations can challenge or affirm assumptions. It forms the basis for informed decision making. Homestead Ag can help you prepare and analyse reports, created using your own meaningful data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Liability limited by a Scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns container is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-5 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"about-court-mccauley\">About Court McCauley, CA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe that good accounting for Australian farmers is not just preparing a tax return or financial statements, but full management accounting &#8211; farm budgeting, variance analysis, and discussions with your advisor about what&#8217;s actually going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Growing up on a beef cattle and cropping property near Cowra in Central West NSW instilled a lifelong love of agriculture, that has only grown as I&#8217;ve experienced different sectors of Australian farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a Chartered Accountant with more than 10 years experience in regional NSW, including Cowra,  Dubbo, and Moree, I have discovered that my passion is partnering with innovative farmers and farming families to build more successful and resilient farming businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I live back near Cowra with my husband and three small children. 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