ABOUT LAWSON AVERY

OUR business is YOUR business

The year we started providing advice to our clients

The minimum number of hours we spend each year assisting clients

Masterton’s postal code and our home-base while we service clients world-wide

The minimum number of income returns we file each year

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Services

We provide accurate and timely advice to enable our clients to make the best decisions.

To do this we provide a large number of services such as:

  • Preparation of financial statements
  • Income Tax Returns
  • GST/FBT/RWT and other tax returns
  • Monthly management accounts
  • Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Strategic Plans
  • Due Diligence reports
  • Cash flow projections
  • Liquidations
  • Transactional advice
  • Business structure advice
  • Trustee Services

Location

Our headquarters are in Masterton, NZ.

Location is not an issue for us. We often travel to meet with our clients in the greater Wairarapa area. We also have clients spanning from the very top to the very bottom of New Zealand, and some outside of NZ.

Staff

Our two partners are supported by a staff of qualified accountants and admin professionals. They all bring considerable experience in both accounting and issues specific to our region.

Clients

Our client base is large & varied. We work with retailers, sheep, beef, dairy and cropping farming, viticulture, professional services, not for profit, tourism, transport and many more.

Xero Platinum Partners

This recognises of the large number of clients we work with on the Xero platform, and the amount of training we have undertaken to reach this milestone. 

Lawson Avery Limited Xero Platinum Partners

Let’s work on your business, together

Ovingdean original homestead 11 cole street masterton

OUR HISTORY

1909 – Lawson Avery was originally founded by Norman Howard James in Perry Street, Masterton, New Zealand. The primary client base consisted of farming or rural occupations.

1933 – The office shifted to the corner of Chapel Street and Lincoln Road.

1939  – After the depression and at the start of World War 2 Ray Hollis joined the firm on a preliminary try out basis for a salary of 350 pounds a year. The firm eventually changed its name to N.H.James and Hollis. By January 1940, Ray Hollis was overseas with the Royal NZ Artillery for four years. He finished as a Major with the Military Cross and returned to Norman James.

1945 – The partnership known as James and Hollis commenced. In October 1945 Norman James had a heart attack and passed away soon after with Ray Hollis carrying on the firm.

1948 – In August, Davidson Stratton joined Ray Hollis and created a new partnership called Hollis and Stratton.

1966 – On 1 April, Peter Lawson joined the Partnership, bringing with him a mostly commercial client base. They saw significant growth in the number of clients and the aging partners.

1973 – In April, Bill Avery joined as a Partner and the name of the firm changed to Hollis, Stratton. Lawson and Avery.

1974 – The firm purchased a section and build their own offices at 11 Cole Street. After demolishing the old house, Ovingdean (Pictured) and completing the new building the office moved on 30 June 1977

2021 – On 30 June (44 years to the day), we moved back into our state-of-the-art offices after we set about creating a space that was open, inviting and future-proofed for growth.

Novelty clocks in boardroom

OUR FUTURE

We’re huge believers in technology and automation.

A completely cloud-based business ourselves, we are advocates for online accounting software and APPS that help our clients DO LESS, so they have MORE TIME in their business.

 As a result of utilising technology, location isn’t a barrier.

We are able to run real-time reports and offer ON-TIME advice while you’re in your retails store, on the farm or basically anywhere in the world!

Whether you’re out in the WOP WOPS, or in our Boardroom, it doesn’t matter. When your organisation’s financial data is online, we simply can work from anywhere at a lightning fast pace for the YOUR benefit.

 

What our clients say

LOVE LOVE LOVE their training and the introduction of Hubdoc. They understand how a small business works, they get that there are sooo many different directions you get pulled in one day so reducing the admin, data entry and paper collections by using software like hubdoc and xero are amazing.

If you want a friendly, professional but personal accounting experience then you are in for a treat. They make accounting lingo make sense to the non-accounting brain.

They get small business and can help you improve and reduce the time spent on your day to day accounting needs, but help plan for realistic goals and cashflows using their advantage of knowing, living in and understanding your industry and your community.