Infraxus

Find out what is broken before you pay anyone to fix it.

Most firms in this market sell a retainer first and read your file later. Infraxus works the other way round: a free review of your accounting file and the spreadsheets you actually run the business from, findings with the dollars attached, and a fixed-fee fix only if the file shows work worth doing.

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How engagements run

Diagnosis, fix, then only what you choose to keep.

01 / FINANCE REVIEWStart here

Finance Review. Free.

Read-only access to your file and the reports you run on, a findings call, a written verdict you keep. Within 24 hours of access.

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02 / CONTROL SPRINT

Control Sprint. Fixed fee.

Fixes the specific problems the review found. Fixed fee, scoped to findings, quoted on the findings call. Model and processes handed over, owned by you.

How the Sprint works See an interactive example of the pack

03 / ENGAGEMENT

Engagement. Optional, monthly.

Optional monthly continuation for owners who want the model maintained and the cadence run. Never a precondition.

About the Engagement

The findings

What a review actually hands you.

Illustrative sample A sample findings document finance-review-findings.pdf Sent same day

Verdict

Reviewed: Xero file, 24 months. Management reports (bookkeeper’s monthly P&L and balance sheet). The forecast spreadsheet and the job tracker the business is actually run from.

The bookkeeping is fine. Reconciled, BAS lodged on time, nothing to fix there. The problem is that none of it tells you what you need to know. The P&L is by account, not by client or job, so you cannot see where the margin is. The forecast spreadsheet does not tie to the ledger; it was built in 2024 and has been rolled forward since. And cash is being managed from the bank balance, which is why the last two BAS quarters felt like surprises. Three findings below. Two are worth real money. One is the reason the other two were invisible.

01 · Margin$72,000 a year

All 28 staff sit in one line, “Wages and salaries,” under overheads. Delivery, sales, and admin are indistinguishable, so there is no gross margin figure anywhere in the file. Recut using the job tracker’s hours, delivery margin is 34 percent against the 41 percent the pricing model assumes. Two of the six retained clients are being delivered below 15 percent once real hours are applied; the largest of them is the one the team likes most. Repricing or re-scoping those two at the current volume is worth about $72,000 a year. Nothing in the existing reports would ever have shown this.

02 · CashLow point $14,000

Cash is run from the bank balance and a mental model of what is due. In the last four quarters the balance fell below $50,000 three times, and in March it reached $14,000, on a $5.2M business. Every time, the cause was the same: the BAS payment, the superannuation run, and a fortnightly payroll landing inside the same ten days, about $210,000 leaving together. None of it is unexpected; all of it is predictable to the day. A 13-week cash view would have shown each squeeze eight to ten weeks out, which is enough time to move an invoice run or hold a supplier payment rather than an overdraft conversation.

03 · Debtors$186,000 over 60 days

Trade debtors sit at $412,000, which looks normal for the revenue. $186,000 of it is over 60 days, and $61,000 of that is over 90, across four clients. Two of the four are the low-margin clients from finding 01. There is no debtor follow-up cadence; invoices are chased when cash feels tight, which is why the chasing and the squeeze arrive together. A weekly aged debtors review and a 14-day follow-up rule would bring most of the $186,000 in within a quarter. This is the fastest cash in the file.

What this cannot fix

The bookkeeping stays with your bookkeeper; it is good. What the review cannot do is decide for you whether to reprice the two clients or exit one of them; that is a commercial call, and it needs the margin number in front of you first.

And the forecast has to be rebuilt from the ledger, not patched, because a spreadsheet that does not tie to the accounts will drift again within a quarter.

$258,000identified in the file

L. Collier · 21 AUG 2026 Illustrative sample business, $5.2M Australian services firm. Dollar figures are what the review found, never what it costs.

Founder

Built and reviewed by Liam Collier.

Liam started in business advisory at BDO New Zealand, working with owner-operated and mid-market businesses up to roughly NZ$100M in revenue. The work focused on advisory, forecasting, reporting, and helping owners understand the numbers behind decisions.

He then ran the finance function inside a 130-person Melbourne law firm, working across cash visibility, management reporting, profitability analysis, and owner decision support. Since then he has worked directly with his own clients, giving him advisory-side, operator-side, and founder-side exposure to the same gap the Finance Review is built to find and the Sprint to fix.

Client reference

“Liam rebuilt our budget from the bottom up and restructured the ledger so we could actually see delivery margins and where payroll was really going… The reporting was genuinely useful: true cash position after obligations, utilisation by consultant, and straight commentary on what needed a decision each month. Always delivered on time, no fuss, and having clean numbers made life easier when the business changed hands.”

George Darwent · then Chief Executive Officer, Centauri Consulting

That engagement began with a free review of the file, which is how every engagement here begins.

Advisory

BDO New Zealand

Operator

130-person law firm, AU

Founder

Direct client work

Fit

When this is the right call.

Built for owner-operated businesses from $1M revenue. Service, project, people-heavy, or B2B operating businesses where cash and profit depend on clients, jobs, teams, suppliers, or delivery capacity.

Triggers. Any one is enough

Cash feels tighter than revenue suggests A hire or expansion is on the table Cash is run from the bank balance and instinct Profit is leaking somewhere Reports arrive too late to act on Profitability by client or project is unknown

Pass on this if

/You need ongoing bookkeeping, not a finance function
/You need tax, audit, or legal advice
/You have no usable accounting or operating data
/You already have a 13-week cash forecast and margin view you trust

Next step

Stop making expensive decisions from numbers you do not trust.

The review is free, the findings are yours in writing, and nothing follows unless the file shows work worth paying for. Twenty minutes to start.

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