Agribusiness
Helping farmers make the most of their Agribusinesses in Taranaki
Our local Agribusiness team of 30 will work with you to ensure that we understand your business.
We have a unique skill set including a broad banking background, practical farming experience and a technically competent team with strong industry relationships. Our team approach means there’s always someone available to assist you, someone who knows your business.
In addition to this amongst our local team of over 70 staff and the wider BDO network we have experts in; NZ tax, trust administration, business recovery & insolvency, corporate finance, audit, corporate and international tax, business advisory services, risk advisory and estate planning.
As farming businesses become ever increasingly complex, we can draw upon these specialist skill sets which is unique compared to many rural based accounting practices.
The solutions and expertise we deliver are individually tailored for our clients and we specialise in providing high quality, timely services that will exceed your expectations.
We can support all aspects of rural business – from new entrant support (talk to us about our “Dairy Start-up” plans) to experienced farm owners looking at Governance or Succession, as well as offering our range of advisory services to agricultural support businesses.
Some of our key roles include:
- Tax preparation and planning
- Assistance with financing, cash flows, financial statements, reporting and business plans
- Farm accounting software training and support
- Restructuring
- Succession planning
- Governance
- Payroll and bookkeeping
What our clients say
We have been with BDO for the past 2 seasons dairy farming, we decided to change after meeting with Kevin Landrigan at a discussion group. Kevin and Sheree Hastie have been amazing! With BDO we have seen a huge difference in what we are able to claim and this has resulted in a dramatic improvement of our finances and tax affairs. We have already recommended and will continue to recommend BDO to any of our farming friends, we have had some great advice and help, we couldn’t be happier with the service.
Neil & Shannon Withers of Get Withers Limited
Working to pay income tax seemed to be the theme of our early years in business. Linking up with Steve Waite and BDO Taranaki has seen our farming businesses grow and prosper and become much more tax efficient.
BDO are always thinking outside the box and their ability to use the National Herd Scheme/Income Equalisation and other initiatives have, more than once, saved our businesses tens of thousands of dollars over the past twenty years.
I can’t speak highly enough of BDO and their involvement and sponsorship of community and sporting organisations, makes us proud to be associated with BDO Taranaki.
Ray & Anne Barron
We moved our farming business to BDO several years ago, and since then they have been a wise voice and sounding board for our business, which comprises two certified organic dairy farms.
Donna and Karley are the super women that we deal with, and it is great to be able to discuss and implement current and future decisions from every angle with all opinions considered.
The BDO team are an important stakeholder in our business, who have also in recent years supported and advised family members in setting up their own entities.
We would recommend Donna, Karley and their team to any prospective clients who want sound, compliant business advice, enjoy a sense of humour, get the opportunity to regularly network with fellow clients, and value for money spent.
Janet and Stephen Fleming
The Team
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Donna works closely with clients in the agricultural sector providing accountancy and taxation services. Donna is particularly interested in helping young entrants to farming establish and grow their businesses by giving advice on appropriate and effective structures, cash flow management and goal setting.
SPECIALIST AREAS
- Agriculture
- Business advisory
- Business structure
- Succession planning
- Cashflow budgeting and forecasting
- Financial and taxation reporting
Kevin's main areas of interest include business structures, planning and strategies, tax minimisation, agribusiness and of course profitable growth. His client base is largely farmers and small to medium enterprises particularly farm service industry businesses. He has a New Zealand wide client base with 25% of his clients outside of Taranaki.
SPECIALIST AREAS
- Agriculture
- Business advisory
- Succession planning
- Business structure
- Forecasting / budgeting
- Cashflow management
- Taxation advice
Mark specialises in the agricultural sector providing business, accountancy and taxation advice to clients. He also specialises in ensuring that clients have the most appropriate business structure in place for their individual circumstances.
SPECIALIST AREAS
- Agriculture
- Business advisory
- Business structure
- Succession planning
- Cashflow management
Having been raised on a dairy farm and having an interest in a dairy farm himself, Steve has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities provided by the industry. He has been advising agribusiness clients, both farmers and those directly servicing them for over 30 years. Steve specialises in strategic planning, structures, succession and governance issues as well as providing strong taxation and accounting solutions for his clients.
SPECIALIST AREAS
- Agriculture
- Succession planning
- Strategic planning
- Management consultancy
- Business structure
- Financial and taxation reporting
Chris has joined BDO Taranaki in the Agribusiness sector as a Consultant. Previously he has had 10 years in agribusiness banking working across the Central North Island but also large parts of the South Island in various banking roles. His experience has been working with Agribusinesses ranging from sharemilkers to some of New Zealand’s largest farming entities. Chris has assisted in a number of aspects in these businesses including strategic planning, governance, succession, opportunity analysis and structuring. Having come from a farming background he enjoys the strong relationships he has formed in and around the sector and has a passion for driving performance out of grass roots, family farming businesses.
SPECIALIST AREAS
- Agriculture
- Business advisory
- Strategic planning
- Succession planning
- Financial consultancy
Ryan works closely with the agricultural sector specialising in providing accountancy and taxation services and advice to clients including developing budgets, forecasts and their business structure to ensure that clients have the best information to make the best decisions.
SPECIALIST AREAS
- Agriculture
- Business advisory
- Business structure
- Cash flow budget
- Financial and Taxation reporting
- Rural software
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