Customer Stories

“Managing volatility is a key challenge facing farmers. This innovative system is proof that development of effective technology can help weather volatility by providing access to real time data. This in turn leads to greater confidence in decision-making and clarity in forecasting, while reducing risk and increasing on-farm productivity.”

Ashburton farmers, Lee-Anne and Norm, run three farms. They have enough to keep them busy without to having to worry about spending long hours on the accounts, which was why they were motivated to start looking for a better solution for managing the finances of their farming business.

When the dairy payout price changed the day before Stephen Stafford-Bush’s client board meeting, he wasn’t worried. There was no last-minute need to update budgets; no rush to re-do reports. All it took was the click of a button and he had the latest information to present to the farm’s stakeholders the following day.

Mulcahy & Co are a Victoria-based practice who say that using Figured in their practice has increased client engagement and created opportunities for more forward-looking conversations around farm financial management.

Joanna Ewenson says the three biggest benefits of using Figured and Xero with her farming clients is the accessibility, ease of use, and being able to easily create budgets that encourage a future-focused approach to finances.

Chrisp & Davidson is a Gisborne-based advisory firm who has embraced cloud accounting tools to provide their clients with accurate and reliable business information, while reducing the time requirements of farm record keeping.

Farm accounting specialists, Diprose Miller have been working collaboratively with large-scale corporate dairy farm, Maheno Farms Ltd, using Xero and Figured to reduce data inefficiencies and robustly plan for the future.

Figured’s user-friendly interface has boosted Sudbury’s client engagement and encouraged more efficient collaboration between the whole farming team. They are now better placed to help clients manage volatility and make more proactive decisions with confidence.

Will Foley is a sheep and beef farmer from Hawke’s Bay who was looking for a comprehensive farm financial management system to look at his whole farming picture – not just the cashflow. Now, Figured is giving him up-to-date information that allows him to make more informed decisions.