Free Guide For Accountants and Agri Consultants

Building Advisory Services for Crop and Mixed Farming Clients

Australian farmers aren't just looking for help closing the books β€” they want a partner in making the next call. This practical guide gives you a scalable, structured approach to delivering real advisory value, no matter where your clients are at in their journey.

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Farmers aren't just looking for someone to close the books. They're looking for someone who can help them make the next call.

What to grow. When to sell. How to keep the business moving through uncertainty. Across the country, clients are dealing with climate pressure, rising input costs, tight cash flow, refinancing and a constant squeeze on margins β€” and these aren't one-off challenges, they are stacking up season after season.

The questions have changed with them: can you help me model this before I commit? What's my breakeven on wheat this season? If I lease that paddock, will it actually pay off?

In This Free Guide, You'll Learn

Understand the Shift in Farmer Expectations

From trade uncertainty to environmental challenges, Australian growers are feeling the pressure β€” and increasingly turning to their advisers for more than just compliance support.

Overcome the Barriers to Advisory

Manage inconsistent data, varying tech skills and limited time with a framework for delivering advisory that suits a range of farming operations, from broadacre cropping to mixed enterprises.

Structure Your Advisory Services

Break advisory out into basic, intermediate and advanced service levels β€” meeting each client where they are and building value from there.

See How Other Firms Are Doing It

Get a look at how leading firms, like Newton & Henry, use Figured to collaborate with clients, deliver insights and build forward-looking plans.

What's Inside

  • What's changing on farm and in the adviser relationship
  • Where the biggest opportunities are for advisers to deliver more value
  • A framework for delivering advisory at scale: basic, intermediate and advanced levels
  • How Figured fits in and supports collaborative, forward-looking financial conversations
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The Advisory Model: Three Levels

Rather than customising every engagement from scratch, build one consistent model that scales across your team and flexes to different client types:

  • Financial basis β€” cropping income and direct costs at enterprise level, no hectares or yields. The way to move beyond compliance without overwhelming the client or your team
  • Production informed β€” add production data and forecast crop income on hectares Γ— yield Γ— price, for clients planning ahead or managing cash flow timing and bank conversations
  • Crop-level gross margin reporting β€” production, inventory and direct costs together, for a clear view of crop-by-crop profitability
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Why Advisory Is Hard to Scale

You have clients with different tech capabilities, different levels of financial confidence and different record-keeping habits β€” and inside the firm, team members with different levels of agri experience trying to deliver a consistent service. It stays hard to scale while:

  • Data is out of date or hard to find
  • Each client uses a different spreadsheet
  • You're double-handling numbers between systems
  • Advisory is built around one senior person's knowledge
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How the Figured Platform Supports the Work

The three levels, the repeatable workflows and the rhythm of reporting are made possible by the platform underneath: the Planning Grid where the financial plan is built from Xero or MYOB actuals and crop tracker forecasts; Crop and livestock trackers for hectares, yields, inventory and sales; the Allocator applying actual costs by crop or field to build accurate gross margins; live dashboards and report packs that are easy to review with clients, banks or family; and integrations that keep it all current with no double handling.

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We got to a point where we were spending more time chasing and fixing spreadsheets than actually talking to clients. We needed a way to make the good work repeatable, and for the team to do it confidently without starting from scratch each time.

Jim Dennis Newton & Henry
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Turn One-Off Requests Into a Repeatable Service

Download the guide for a structured approach to cropping and mixed farming advisory that scales across your team, at every client level.