Accountants know the importance of providing value-added services to their agri clients, but building a productised and scalable service offering can be daunting.
This guide shows how to deliver it with the staff, client touchpoints and expertise you already have today β including examples from some of Australia's leading agri accountants.
Just 23% of farmers receiving only compliance services say their accountant is really valuable. That jumps to 83% when they also get value-added services like budgeting and planning.
Compliance work has a limited effect on how much your clients value you. The firms that establish themselves as a genuinely valued member of the farming community do it through value-added services β and those can be delivered with the staff, clients and expertise you have today.
Source: a survey conducted by Xero and Figured.
How Figured Empowers Agri Accountants
Produce farm financial and production reports at scale, without disrupting the internal processes your team already runs on.
Digitise client production and financial data in one place, so the numbers behind every conversation are current rather than reconstructed.
Model what-if scenarios and lead deeper client conversations with the data and insights to back them up.
Work that was traditionally time and resource-intensive, productised so you deliver high-value outputs right out of the box.
The opportunity
And almost all of it comes from clients you already have.
Delivering value-added agri services unlocks three opportunities sitting on the doorstep of your firm:

Firms without agri-specific tools struggle to manage scope creep, risk being unable to fulfil ad-hoc requests efficiently, and often place excess pressure on staff with limited time and resources. Firms using Figured are:

Figured suits any accountant with farming clients. This guide is essential reading if you or your team experience any of the following:

Figured integrates directly with Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks Online on a single ledger, so your accounting software stays the source of truth and there is no double handling. Set-up is simple, and we provide hands-on support to get you started.

Figured is a great tool for financial management reporting, because it really allows the opportunity for us to help clients establish a great structure around their financial reporting system that actually gives them meaningful information.