About

Janet Coates

Chartered Accountant

Director

I am a big believer that small-medium businesses should have the opportunity to have their books in order so that they can spend more time on the business or on holidays! By providing accurate bookkeeping immediately gives the business owner potential to focus on other important information like Budgets, Cashflow and Dashboards for the busy entrepreneurs. I love helping businesses identify these critical factors, I also love helping businesses build structures to handle GST, Employee compliances and income tax liabilities. I want to help you grow your business.

I didn’t always know I was going to work in accounting – before I found my calling, I had a wide variety of weird and wonderful jobs all around Australia including sewing mattresses and sheep shearing!

It was once I became the manager of a fuel station and I started doing the accounts that I realised that I was pretty damn good at this stuff! From there I landed a fantastic job in aged care working in accounts, and later I studied to become a Chartered Accountant whilst working full time as a Finance Manager for Karrinyup Shopping Centre and raising my daughter. 

As I was working as a Finance Manager for one of Perth’s major funeral homes it really hit me that there were alot of small/medium businesses who were doing their own bookkeeping leaving no time to review their Profit & Loss or Implementing annual budgets and watching their cash flow as they were time-poor.  I realised then that  I wanted to help other small-medium businesses grow. And that’s how SF Accounting came to be!

I’m not your stereotypical accountant – I’m anything but boring! I may not be everyone’s cup of tea but I can promise you that I will talk straight to you about accounting without all the “accountant talk” and make sure that you completely understand everything you need to know in order for your business to flourish. 

Want to find out more about how I can help grow your business?