Whitelaw Weber - Chartered Accountants

27/09/2026

Our team had a social afternoon at the Kerikeri Squash Club last week🎾🏓

In between squash games, there was table tennis matches (which got competitive 😅) & pizza!

Our team had such a good time, how lucky is our community to have a facility like the Kerikeri Squash Club!✨

22/09/2026

This is exactly how we want our clients to feel.

Supported. Looked after. Like there’s a team beside them who genuinely cares about their business and where they’re heading.

Sometimes that means celebrating the wins together. Sometimes it means having the harder conversations. But through all of it, our clients and what’s best for them sit at the heart of what we do.

Thank you, Rachel. Words like these mean a lot to our team.

15/09/2026

Running a business can be hectic. Let alone when admin keeps piling up.

That's where Paid & Done has made such a difference for Northland Timber Company. They run the business, we take care of the paperwork.

It's that simple.

07/09/2026

One less thing to worry about.

Paid & Done takes care of your business payments, so bills don’t get forgotten, suppliers are looked after and IRD payments are made when they should be.

You get time back, room to grow without adding another employee, and the reassurance of having an established NZ-based Chartered Accountancy firm behind it all.

Simple, secure and sorted for a fixed fee.

Find out more about Paid & Done on our website.

02/09/2026

Smashing goals, one goal at a time 💪

We’re proud to be helping this lovely couple set goals that move the dial in their business.

There’s nothing better than seeing our clients set their sights on what they want to achieve, put a plan in place, and then start ticking those goals off one by one.

Keep smashing it, Keripies! 🥧👏

It might not look like a big deal to everyone… but to us, this is VERY exciting 😂

After a long wait, we’re finally using our brand-new pie trays! Our old tins/trays have made a lot of Keripies over the years, so it was definitely time for an upgrade. We have used single pie tins in Keripies for over 25 years.

A massive thank you to PoutamaTrust for the funding support that helped us make this upgrade possible. 💙 We’re incredibly grateful for the support and investment into our little family business.

31/08/2026

Can't see the wood for the trees?

Running a business rarely goes to plan. A large sale falls through, key staff are unexpectedly unavailable, or a shift in the weather disrupts an otherwise well-organised quarter. Firefighting can start to feel like business as usual, with attention drawn to whatever issue is loudest that week.

This is a pattern we see often with clients, and one of the most effective ways we help interrupt it is the Magic Wand technique. Rather than starting with "what went wrong this month/quarter/year", we ask: "if you had a magic wand, what would you change about your business?" Nothing is off the table — finance, staffing, time.

The value of this exercise is in what it reveals: your genuine priorities, rather than the noise of day-to-day operations. It's a shift from reacting to circumstances to leading with purpose.

Uncertainty doesn't disappear, and unexpected challenges will still arise. But with a clear sense of what matters most, we typically find that by our next conversation, real progress is being made towards the business our clients set out to build.

P.S. If firefighting has become the norm in your business, it may be worth asking yourself that same question. Get in touch — we're happy to help you find the answer.

24/08/2026

We've worked with Kirsty from The Marketing Wingman for some time, watching her build a genuinely brilliant marketing business. So when she asked our director, Annika, to become her business coach this year, we assumed the conversations would be all about strategy.

Turns out, she didn't need help with strategy. Kirsty's got that part sorted. Instead, what she needed was someone to challenge her decisions — not make them for her.

It's a gap we see often with sole operators. Every decision lands on one desk. No one down the hall to ask, "is this actually the best use of your time?"

So we kept it simple:
– A monthly sales target
– A monthly review of what's driving it
– Space to talk pipeline, tools and trade-offs, as they come up

The strategy was never the gap. The accountability was.

If you're running a business on your own — when did someone last challenge how you're spending your time and money? Not to criticise. To help you get more from both.